Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salt Lake City, 14 miles north of the sprawling grey prison buildings, KTVT President Ben Larson whipped into action when he got the first report that prisoners had jumped a guard, wounded him with knife stabs and taken over everything but the administration building. The inmates also grabbed 29 hostages, including twelve members of a visiting Mormon church basketball team. While the prisoners ran amuck, smashing doors and windows, setting fires, Larson rushed a mobile unit right into the grounds, 2½ hours ahead of rival KUTV. A KTVT camera in the administration building picked up shots of prisoners...
...boarding a ship for a convalescent's cruise. The ship's engines throb as they drive the vessel over the waves-and it is suddenly clear that this throb is really the heavy pounding of Mr. Arcularis' heart as it struggles under the surgeon's knife. For the operation is still going on, and the "cruise" is only Mr. Arcularis' ether dream. His "fellow passengers" are really the surgeon and his assistants, with two notable exceptions: Mr. Arcularis' mother and her lover, who have been dead for nearly half a century. In this dreamworld...
...swordsmanship of the Arab horseman; and as late as 1929, young Prince Saud was dealing with a domestic crisis by the simpler method of chopping off the heads of captured tribesmen. Once he saved his father's life by leaping between him and an assassin, taking the descending knife in his shoulder. Saud's concepts of government were formed in a land where there are few inner boundaries, and sheiks control not a domain but a tribe constantly on the move as their flocks wander in search of pasture. The Old Lion ruled them through the power...
...Away from his music, he sometimes seemed like a child. He liked to watch children's programs or boxing on television, and he could shake with laughter watching an unsuspecting guest try to cut meat with a folding knife. The stories that clustered about him bore testimony to the fact that he was (in the words of a friend) at once naive and crafty, simple and complex, gracious and spiteful. When a rehearsal failed to meet his standards, he was capable of kicking over the music stand and storming offstage to rip scores from his studio bookshelves and upset...
Some patients were operated on later, when the infection had subsided. The operation then was easier and recovery was smoother, Surgeon Coldrey believes, than if the patients had gone under the knife while acutely ill. In other cases, operations were avoided for patients either pregnant or suffering such ailments as bronchitis, heart disease or influenza. A prime indication for avoiding an operation, Surgeon Coldrey thinks, is when acute appendicitis develops aboard ship, "away from skilled surgery and adequate surgical surroundings." In fact, Surgeon Coldrey is now beginning to wonder whether it is even necessary to operate automatically in the first...