Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order: no more sliced bread for the duration, a consequent yearly saving of 100 tons of slicing-machine alloy steel. But to U.S. housewives it was almost as bad as gas rationing-and a whale of a lot more trouble. They vainly searched for grandmother's serrated bread knife, routed sleepy husbands out of bed, held dawn conferences over bakery handouts which read like a golf lesson: "Keep your head down. Keep your eye on the loaf. And don't bear down." Then came grief, cussing, lopsided slices which even the toaster refused, often a mad dash...
...heaven's sakes, Dorothy, why don't you go home and take something off?" One sequence required him to kiss heavily lipsticked Dorothy three times. When the make-up man brought him a mirror, Hope, who looked as if he had been attacked with a bowie knife, cried: "What a lover! Is there a tourniquet in the house...
...only weapons I carried were a pen knife - dull - and a sharply pointed pencil...
...Harry F. Byrd's committee was already hard at work on plans to slice the budget wherever fat appeared. (Many a Senator and Congressman would join in the surgery more out of distaste for New Deal bureaus than love for saving.) But there would be more oratory than knife-wielding: the budget called for cuts of $458,000,000 in nonwar expenditure, and few observers believed that Congress could raise this figure above a billion...
...picture changes: Picture No. 2 is not a story but a lesson in Commando tactics. With bagpipes wailing, the Commandos set out in an auxiliary cruiser. At dawn they slip overside into barges, swarm up the Norwegian cliffs and surprise a Nazi airfield. The camera dwells admiringly on their knife work and deadly hand-to-hand skill...