Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passion, sex, revolutionary ardor and crime. Thus when Wagner, in the Lohengrin Prelude, wished to evoke virginal purity, he used far fewer dissonances than in the Tannhduser Bacchanale. Palestrina's contemporary, Don Carlo Gesualdo, a 16th-Century rapscallion who ended by hacking his wife to pieces with a knife, used far more dissonances than pious Palestrina...
...failed to win 30 years ago. In Denver, Otis Edwin Gardner was charged with assault with a deadly weapon: he had tried to get a promotion by 1) threatening the boss with a revolver, 2) bringing a whetstone to the office, spending a morning significantly honing his knife...
...after the arrival of motorized Nazi soldiers, who strike the quiet village with the impact of a powder-plant explosion. The peaceful villagers, goaded by Nazi beatings and killings, finally strike back under Leader Eric Toreson (Paul Muni), who says: "We must learn to be gangsters, thugs, useful with knife, sandbag, dynamite, noose, club and poison...
Styled by Republicans as "...an insult to the Australians..." the nomination of Edward J. Flynn as United States Minister to Australia has implications far more serious than mere inter-party knife-throwing. Lacking both the background and the training necessary for delicate diplomacy, Flynn owes his appointment to peculiar political circumstances. These circumstances make him much less than satisfactory to the Democratic Party of which he is chairman. But they do little to make him the ideal successor of the current minister, Nelson Johnson, and they may well serve to disrupt long-sought unity at home and abroad...
Then Sergei and Fyodor were sent to a German-occupied town "to destroy . . . anything ... of any value to the enemy." On the outskirts of the town they met an old peasant woman who offered to help them. They were suddenly attacked by two Germans, Fyodor drove his knife into the body of one; Sergei twisted a short piece of rope around the other's throat...