Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a bottle of rice wine, a can of kerosene, a sharp knife, he went far into the brush. Fortifying himself with the wine, he sloshed kerosene over the tindery brush, lit it, then made an earnest effort to disembowel himself...
...Battle. German Intelligence had also studied PU-36. Reconnaissance had looked over the Smolensk area. In posthumous tribute to Marshal Tukhachevsky, the German commander in this area, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, decided to abandon the fundamental pattern of Blitzkrieg -cutting as if with a knife through one strategic spot (as at Sedan) and then encircling. Instead he dug in, as if with a gigantic fork, sending five parallel prongs into the defense area. Each pair of prongs had to reduce island after island between them...
Soap sculpture is popular because it is easy and cheap (only requisites: a bar of soap, a kitchen paring knife, an orangewood stick, a steady hand). Many a serious sculptor carves his small-scale models in soap, and its alabastery translucence makes it useful for window display and advertising photographs. One drawback: its fragility. Procter & Gamble sends the winning pieces on a year's tour of schools, stores and clubs. Before the tour's end, half the pieces are broken. Too fragile even to set out on this year's tour is a prizewinning cow. She lost...
Maybe, instead, he was trying to put a knife in Franklin Roosevelt's frantic little friend Fiorello LaGuardia. It all depended on how you looked at it, when Boss Flynn handed Brooklyn's blue-eyed, stocky District Attorney William O'Dwyer the job of running against LaGuardia for mayor of New York City...
...little to do now that Japan's policy was definitely decided, took to his bed with a minor, or political, illness. There Russian Ambassador Constantin Smetanin tracked him down, spent a nervous hour and a half trying to get an assurance that Japan would not stick a knife in his country's back...