Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vaselli survived the transition from Fascism to freedom-though one Communist leader proclaimed, when the Reds briefly gained a place in the government: "The state and the party need Vaselli's hundreds of millions. With our fine Communist surgical knife we must cut out this sore from the body politic." "I built Rome; with Rome I stand or fall," Vaselli growled, and refused to leave his 250-room Piazza del Popolo palace (a floor apiece for his three sons, the ground floor thriftily let to a popular café, where the intelligentsia met to debate socializing wealth). Instead...
...looking for the weapon used 10 hack to death a shopkeeper and a liquor-store clerk. Last week an off-duty policeman named James Kitchell pushed a hand under an icehouse half a block from the scene of the murders, and pulled out a bloody butcher knife. Kitchell rushed to his boss. Police Chief Warren Norman, with the killer's weapon and an idea of his own: instead of calling the usual press conference, why not put the knife back and ask the town's newsmen to cooperate in a ruse? Springfield's two TV stations...
...Douglas V. Madore, 26, the father of two, whom the police identified as a parolee from the Concord Reformatory. He was charged with indecent assault and battery, and with unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon, a hunting knife...
Last week, despite a setback from a bout of pneumonia, George Congrave was able to feed himself with a special knife-and-fork combination that enabled him both to cut and pick up meat with his left hand. He was using that hand to print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...
...agree that Mitchell's program was the best possible cure. Faced with the fact that labor has lost a lot of friends, he could see, too, that the temper of Congress was even hotter than Mitchell's. Rather than face possible mass surgery from a congressional butcher knife-perhaps even an outcry in Congress for a federal right-to-work law-George Meany was prepared, however reluctantly, to take Physician Mitchell's prescription...