Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After learning sentry-stalking in the Indian fashion, home-defense volunteers attending the school were taught to use a knife as the principal weapon of silent combat. Although throat-cutting was demonstrated and practiced on dummies, back-stabbing was recommended because it usually involves less noise, and a proficient stabber should be able to account for several sentries in short order. Garroting with fine piano wire was supervised by an instructor with experience in Northern India...
Under New Jersey law, Markert was not allowed to prescribe drugs, administer anesthetics, or use the knife in surgical operations. But Maxfield was a newly qualified "licensed medical practitioner"- a kind of super-osteopath who had passed a special State examination allowing him "unlimited practice...
...soon as Rancher Gill had been massaged, yanked and kneaded into some semblance of muscular control, had learned all over again how to wash his face, tie his tie, handle a knife & fork, he headed for his ranch in the Amazon jungle. He was in charge of an expedition, financed by Philanthropist Sayre Merrill, 1) to worm from the Indians the black magic of curare cooking, 2) to bring back to the U. S. enough curare for laboratory use, 3) to bring back any other useful drugs from the Indian pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best...
...tain Government followed up its severance of relations by heaping Gallic recrimination upon the head of its late Entente partner. His voice knife-sharp with bitterness, the Foreign Minister charged: England had provided only slight military aid to France, thinking selfishly solely of the defense of the British Isles, and must therefore shoulder the blame for "the loss of the war"; France had mobilized 3,000,000 men, England only 200,000; the great strategic error of the campaign occurred when at England's insistence the French Army left its trenches to rush into the Lowlands to the fatal...
...Mary Lamb threw a fork at a domestic, missed the girl, but harpooned her feeble-minded father. Then she killed her mother with a carving knife. Such behavior was considered extraordinary even in literary circles that included Cole ridge, Godwin, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt and De Quincey. While friends hushed up the tragic affair, Mary Lamb was sent away to a private asylum (Charles had already passed six weeks in the Hoxton mad house). Coleridge wrote her letters of metaphysical commiseration, which baffled Charles and may have enraged Mary. One day after her release she was quietly talking to Coleridge. Suddenly...