Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great blast of gas and flame-enough to blow the chute open, but not quite enough to set it afire, though the inside of it was blackened like cork. Another lieutenant swimming down a river had to fight his way through crocodiles, slashing at them with his heavy jungle knife. He escaped with a couple of nasty tooth marks in his shoulders. So far as is known, no American flyers have yet encountered the inland headquarters of the cannibals, although no news from cannibals' guests is not necessarily good news...
...Gray, J. T. Priestley) which were treated at the Mayo Clinic from 1907 to 1938. Surgeon Alvarez pointed out that: 1) 24% of all patients who were operated upon recovered completely from the disease; 2) the percentage of cures rose to 60% for those who went under the knife early. If the cancer does not return within five years after the operation, said Dr. Alvarez, the chances are that it never will. The recovery figures, he added, could be "greatly improved" if middle-aged people would go to their doctors as soon as they have these symptoms: indigestion, loss...
...solution of how to keep the ceilings intact, WLB now passed the buck to Congress. Board Chairman William Hammatt Davis said that obviously standards of living must be cut-but the knife should be Congress' taxing power, not WLB's power to negotiate wages...
Levy told how to operate as a guerilla in enemy territory, and described the best way to kill a sentry without making any noise, by muffling his month and turning the knife so it goes into his back "smooth and easy," or by cutting his throat so the blood runs the other...
...GILDED MAN-Carter Dickson-William Morrow ($2). Sir Henry Merri-vale, in sportive mood, solves the stabbing of an English country gentleman who was struck down with his own fruit knife while robbing his own art gallery. An ironclad puzzle, with some hilarious interludes...