Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above all, Commandomen must learn to kill. They prefer to kill quietly. A favorite Commando weapon is a long, straight knife, both edges sharpened razor-keen, carried in a trouser sheath. Some have metal kneecaps, fitted with metal spikes, to be driven into enemy crotches and spines. They can devise their own daggers, clubs, knives. They know the uses of spiked brass knuckles. All must know a Commando equivalent of jiujitsu. Fiercely, without quarter, they battle each other in practice combat, often break each other's bones: a few nights before the St. Nazaire raid one officer...
...facts, on the post-war industrial situation, and the adjustments that will be necessary to avoid economic collapse. Perhaps the tritest of the articles is the opening one by Editor Irwin Ross '40, who naively thinks that an allied declaration of the rights of man would win the Burmese knife-slingers over to our side...
...Coventry. London, Manchester. Ow I wish I could come up with a Jerry plane. I would show them. Today my steward put my knife spoon and fork in bucket of water to wash then forgot they were there, chooked water overboard with them in it. I could of chooked im overboard...
Possibly because he comes from Portland, Ore., where the winters are rainy, Darrel Austin paints an imaginary world of endless oozy swamps and puddles, peopled with perky-looking animals and wraithlike beings half submerged in pools of water. His colors, laid on the canvas with a palette knife instead of a brush, are notable for their limpid transparency and eerie phosphorescence...
...Japanese advanced the lawlessness behind the lines increased. Railroads were wrecked, cars were fired upon in the dark, and even in daylight several Chinese were murdered on the road. Gangs of dacoits, as many as four or five hundred, armed with cruel, butcher-knife-like dahs and with torches in their hands often went through towns completing the work of destruction begun by Japanese incendiary bombs. The Japanese, and the small but active group of Burmese that were their allies, literally and devastatingly burned their way through Burma...