Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South of Shreveport, where Spanish moss droops from the live oaks and watercourses slash the marshy Louisiana land like knife-cuts in a pan of fudge, 340,000 soldiers of the Army met last week in the greatest sham battle in U.S. history. It was also the most decisive...
...tight squeeze-generous, square-shooting John Roxborough gave Julian Black, Chicago ex-gambling-house operator, a half interest in Joe. Meanwhile Roxborough grew fond of the good-natured, easygoing lad, took him home, taught him to brush his teeth, take a bath, eat with a knife & fork. He got Joe a job as an unskilled laborer at the Ford Motor plant, dressed him in castoffs, gave him $5 a week for spending money...
...years ago, a gentle, dark-eyed boy of 17 stabbed his mother 32 times with a bread knife. He was quite intelligent: he worked night & day, in school, in a bakery and tending his fatherless brothers and sisters. Everyone in the neighborhood liked and respected...
When he was eleven, Gino determined to kill her. After six years of wrestling with his inhibitions, he rushed into her bedroom with the knife. As soon as he killed her, he felt relief from tremendous tension...
...keep ahead of her only serious rival, The Grade Teacher (circ. 120,000), Editor Owen constantly trots around to schools, conferences, teachers' conventions. At the National Education Association convention in Boston last month, Miss Owen armed herself with a cake knife and a huge cake celebrating the Instructor's soth birthday, passed out slices...