Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came an order to pick up survivors. Latticed cargo nets were slung over the stern sides. Single lifelines dangled from the forward decks. Several bobbing Germans drifted within range, shouting "Kamerad! Kamerad!" A few hundred yards away the U-boat rocked and rolled, waves washing higher & higher over its knife-slim deck. She began to settle by the stern...
...when the Baron rose from his desk to take the girl in his arms her eyes were menacing. Suddenly she clawed a sharp knife from her clothes, struck it deep into the Baron's breast. He crumpled, begging for mercy, but the girl did not heed. Calmly she washed her hands, tidied her hair, plucked the pass from the Baron's stiffening fingers, swept offstage...
...companies whose war contracts face renegotiation, the War Department Price Adjustment Board last week showed the razor edge of its scalpel. During the year ended May 1, PAB revealed that contracts totaling $18,500,000,000, held by 1,658 companies, have gone under the knife. Two-thirds were found to have excess profits. From them the U.S. recovered $1,866,000,000 in excess profits, almost two-thirds of it from price reductions on future deliveries...
...last week movie houses were packed by a wretched distortion of the life of Agustin Lara. Called Noches de Ronda ("Nights of Revelry"), it was a pale, sentimental story of a café musician's rise to radio fame. The face in the film was not the pinched, knife-scarred face of Lara, Mexico's most popular songwriter. The producers had taken one look at that and decided to give the role to the handsome singer Ramón Armengod. But what drew throngs to the box office was Lara's fantastic personal reputation and that...
...piano. He attended a military school and, before he was 19, fought with Pancho Villa. Mustered out, he went to Mexico City and began his musical career as a whorehouse pianist. Today many of his songs reveal an intimate knowledge of bordello sentiment. Another permanent acquisition was a deep knife gash running upward from the left corner of his mouth. After witnessing a shooting affair which left one woman dead and several wounded, Lara decided to move up the social scale...