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Word: knifings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of these vernal mistakes is a rather loose-knit little clique instigated by someone known only to close subordinates as "The Howl." To everybody else "The Howl" looks like a loose-knit booby wearing a Win With Willkie mask and carrying a machete (a loose-knit pocket knife) and scaring the devil out of a couple of characters he found playing pinball in the lower reaches of J entry (left stairway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gimme a Yo-Yo, Says Howl, In Winthrop it is Spring | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...raising is no cinch. But hosts of U.S. citizens now want to raise pigs, and crowds of amateurs are trying it. Thirty to 40% of U.S. pigs die before they are old enough to kill. To save more U.S. pigs for the knife, the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association gave pointers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Delicate Pig | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...Long Beach, Calif. hospital with a knife wound in his chest was retired Naval Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, 54, divorced first husband of the Duchess of Windsor. His wife, No. 4, said that his knife had slipped as he was trying to open a bottle of ketchup some time before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 29, 1943 | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

LIFE IN A PUTTY KNIFE FACTORY-H. Allen Smith-Doubleday, Doran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barroom Talk | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

Dreamer. In Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital attendants did what they could for Private Patrick Pisula, who had imitated "the man in the circus" at a bar, taken a couple of bites out of a glass, tried hard to swallow a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 15, 1943 | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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