Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from X Base. More than a year ago pint-sized Captain James Arthur Kehoe, onetime Kentucky tobacco farmer, sallied into the Burma jungles with a bowie knife and a sackful of cheap watches for trading (TIME, May 31). Kehoe was off to negotiate with Naga headhunters for military outposts and to survey the wild country through which the new road was to pass. Last December the engineers moved surreptitiously into rolling green tea gardens on the far eastern fringes of India's Assam Province. There they set up "X Base" near a little one-lane gravelly road which British...
...devotee of beer and wine, he weighed between 300 and 400 Ib. Once, when he politely heaved himself up in a crowded bus, three women took the proffered seat. A lover and highly successful practitioner of romantic balladry, Chesterton carried a sword cane and a 14-in. clasp knife under his flowing cape. Assailants might have found him hard to locate, for he often could not locate himself: his absentmindedness was prodigious. He was sometimes obliged to buy a copy of his own weekly (G.K.'s) to find the address of his office. "Am in Market Harborough," he once...
...fighting men may be taught the niceties of the knife and the noose, but never should their ears be reddened with even laundered versions of such bawdy ballads as Dirty Gertie or Mademoiselle from Armentieres. Such, apparently, is the chaste opinion of the U.S. Post Office, which has closed the mails to Give Out!, a book of military ditties compiled with an approving nod from the armed services...
...September 1943 Adolf Hitler, presumably, still wears his old uniform. His armies have lost Africa and the Mediterranean, are retreating in Russia. His cities lie in ruins, his satellites are ratting. The people he conquered are whetting vengeance's knife. The democracies he despised are readying mighty blows...
Lord Louis, 43-year-old, 6-ft.-4-in. second cousin to King George VI, is best known as the Chief of Britain's savage, knife-wielding Commandomen. His title, heretofore: Chief of Combined Operations. As such he directed numberless hit-&-run raids against the coast of Hitler's Europe...