Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peaks. Up, up they came in sharpness, ruggedness, meanness. He landed hard on a 12,000-ft.-high slope, spraining his ankles as he hit one of the few rocks in sight. Coolly he measured the stillness around him, took inventory of his assets: a .32-cal. revolver, a knife and some book matches (he had forgotten his survivor's kit). Dave Steeves was, in fact, some 11,000 ft. up in the Sierra-a dangerously low altitude for a transcontinental jet pilot, a dangerously high...
...guard bent over the chessboard, absorbed in the play, he was seized from behind. As he struggled, one of the nearby sun bathers snatched up an ax, sent it smashing into his skull. A moment later the carefully concealed knife of another laborer slammed twice into his stomach. Finally, someone gave the guard the coup de grace-with his own pistol...
...Leon and Leonard Masden, 19, identical twins from Shepherdsville, Ky., went under the knife at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for a kidney transplant authorized by court order (TIME, June 24). In a six-hour operation Leonard's left kidney was transplanted to Leon. This week the surgeons reported that, so far, both patients are doing well, that the transplanted kidney is functioning...
...World, put Harriet to work as a columnist. It was a good pick. She had written brilliant copy for her own cream, and she did even better campaigning against the wasp waist and for shorter skirts, and announcing that yes, it was very wrong to eat peas off a knife. Perhaps gallant General Grubb might have conceded that, regardless of who won the Civil War, American women won the peace. Harriet Hubbard Ayer fought to the last man and had the final victory of picking up poor old Bert Ayer's unpaid tabs before he died. And. some...
...should do it for me." By the following day, after six more glasses of port, the doctor's mind was made up. "We must kill her," he said. Without a word, Simone Deschamps rose from her chair, went to the local hardware store and bought a Boy Scout knife...