Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victim, just before his death, told the police that the prisoner had approached him with an ice pick and stabbed him without justification. The defendant, however, said the victim had come at him first with a knife. It was only to defend, himself, the prisoner insited, that he picked up an ice pick from behind...
With Needle & Knife. In 1940 the German army shipped the dismantled altar to Berlin to be stored like the treasure it is in the vaults of the Reichsbank. When the conquering U.S. Army moved into Germany, it found the crated altar in an air-conditioned vault in Veit Stoss's native Nürnberg. General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower ordered it shipped back to Cracow...
...trouble." Even so, Meyers, for example, found himself swept into mob action directed straight at himself. Says he: "I was in part of the crowd that was looking around for a 'nigger-lovin' TIME reporter.' I was told, 'We've got a knife for him.' I looked around with them, eased quickly away into a less aggressive part of the crowd. I also had the ignominious experience of being part of the mob chasing Chicago LIFE Correspondent Paul Welch and his photographer partner Grey Villet. I saw Grey holding his long lens...
...horrified words of a local police officer, who witnessed the scene, they would "hack his knee or his Achilles tendon so that he would drop, then slowly, neatly, talking to him all the while and wishing him a pleasant journey to Hell, proceed to pare his head with a knife until he fell dead...
After quickly passing over the distracting decadence displayed on the cover of the Registration Issue of the Advocate (a cover strewn with stems, a sword, knife, bottles, brushes, legs, a violin bow, its violin, all complementing a long, angular girl fiddling in a proper literary manner, while the world burns) one finds little of much interest inside the magazine. Other than the happy choice of including no new poems, the editors seem to have made little effort to make the magazine palatable...