Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ragged knife presumes the sleeping skill...
Among the guerrillas Sergei met Fyodor, whose pregnant wife had been bayoneted to death by Nazis, his child daughter raped. Fyodor and Sergei were sent to dynamite a Nazi radio station. Fyodor dispatched a Nazi sentry with "a brief flash of his knife blade." The Germans were "perfect targets." Sergei's and Fyodor's bullets "tore into their bodies." The two Russians dashed home in a stolen Nazi truck...
...clams and oysters. He attaches his sucking "tube-feet" to a bivalve, opens it, inserts his mobile stomach, eats and digests his victim. But apparently the starfish lacks the strength to open an oyster. In doing that job, a human being usually appreciates the aid of a knife. The force required was reported in Science last week by Professor Albert Moore Reese of West Virginia University. He pulled oysters and clams apart with a large spring scale attached to steel hooks inserted in notches cut in the bivalves' shells, and he found them pretty rugged...
Negro soldiers in a small café were celebrating with a final course of whiskey, gin and beer. From somewhere a beer bottle landed on a girl's head. A knife-brandishing soldier charged the Negro Military Policeman who stepped in. When the M.P. shot at the concrete floor the bullet ricocheted into the soldier's leg. M.P.s efficiently rounded up 150 soldiers, began loading them into a bus. Then a single shot turned the row into a riot. Negro Soldiers and M.P.s, a few white officers and men and some city cops joined in. Chunky Arizona Republic...
...becomes drowsier, more confused and incoherent. When his replies to questions show that his mind is thoroughly disoriented, the doctors know they have cut deep enough into his brain. (Dr. Freeman once casually asked a patient, "What's going through your mind now?" Said the patient: "A knife...