Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quality Party. Like Commando troops, Rangers learn to skin up high trees, descend 200-ft. precipices on ropes, study the trade of the knife man and the strangler. To the newsmen visitors the training seemed to demand thugs and gangsters; but the British, who have tried that type, know better. "They never pan out-mostly yellow," said a Commando instructor...
...medieval-looking fourth-floor workshop. There he whittles to perfection the paper-thin, cigaret-shaped reeds on whose shaping and adjustment oboe tone heavily depends. A flawed reed can make even the best playing sound like a tin horn. Tabuteau spends hours every day scraping away with a razorlike knife...
...from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish of dripping water." It was still dark when they stopped to rest at "a heap of stones . . . shown on the map as a farmhouse . . . many miles from any road or track...
...dive-bomber, said: "Here's where I get one for my brother." He did. Captain Sidney Combs, of Lexington, Ky., took cover behind a tank until a land mine exploded under it and injured the crew. Combs amputated the tank captain's leg with a knife, crawled into a foxhole and directed the artillery fire. Pounded by Stukas, the U.S. force pressed on, reached its objective, destroyed enemy installations and withdrew...
...Your father has sent you your best hunting knife. And since you have open season all year round down there, he is making another knife for you from an old bayonet...