Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schwartzkopf, dazed but unhurt, found himself on the tracks, the wreckage piled around him, the control tower aflame. A coach had sheared against the locomotive as if a knife had cut it down the middle. The Pennsylvanian's fireman and at least eleven others were dead; 42 or more were injured. The engineer lost an arm. An hour after the wreck a Chicago advertising man discovered that he still held in his hand the bridge cards he had been ready to play when the train left the tracks...
Pierre Laval, once chubbily greasy but now haggard, showed reporters a dented cuff link he said had deflected his would-be assassin's bullet last August. Meantime guards arrested a prowler with a knife on Laval's estate near Vichy...
TIME (Aug. ii) under Jumping Devildogs, in enumerating various articles of equipment as carried by parachutists, stresses the importance of a knife by relating it, rather erroneously, to my parachute accident over San Diego, last May. The point is, salvation rested on staying with the plane, not cutting loose from...
...snarled in the shrouds and dangling in the air. He was spectacularly rescued by a Navy pilot who flew close enough to the other plane to take Osipoff into the cockpit. On receiving Osipoff's letter above, TIME unable to understand why, if he had had a knife, he could not have cut himself loose and descended with his emergency chute, wired him for enlightenment. Lieut. Osipoff replied as follows...
...submit to a trade-pact tariff-lowering policy, which they feel is a sock at their bread-basket. And what steps are being taken against the post-war flames of hate which make any sane treatment of a defeated enemy impossible? Lastly, is there any hope that Congress will knife through political morass and public let-George-do-it-iveness to solve the problem of wartime inflation, and so cushion the eventual shock...