Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, aged 17 days, Gary Neil and Larry Dale Hutchens went under the knife. In mid-operation the surgeons found, as they had feared, that the tissues tying the twins together included part of their spinal canals and two sensory nerves. They made the separation anyway, confident that the severed nerves were minor ones and gratified that little blood or spinal fluid was lost in the operation. At week's end Gary and Larry were doing fine in separate cribs and the doctors gave them a good chance to live normal lives...
...remnant of the peoples who inhabited Western Europe in the Stone Age, long before the prehistoric Indo-European migrations from the east. In the complex Basque language-so difficult that, according to a Basque proverb, the devil himself failed to learn it in seven tries-stone is aitz, knife is aizto. Though basically a mountain folk, Basques make good seamen, like to point out that the pilot of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, was a Basque. A Basque legend has it, indeed, that a dying Basque seafarer told Columbus of the New World's existence...
...Many Croutons? In Malibu, Calif., arrested in the fashionable Holiday House restaurant after pulling a knife on Chef Carlos Hernandez, slashing the wrist of a dishwasher, hurling a pot of hot coffee that struck a second dishwasher, Waiter John C. Burton explained to police that he was upset over the way Hernandez was mixing a Caesar salad...
...Comer) was a shrewd operator with a taste for custom-made silk shirts, big black cigars and 40-guinea suits. It took a fat wad of track-protection money to buy these luxuries for Jack, but to help him collect it he had the assistance of an artful knife-wielder named Billy Hill...
...Line. In Long Beach, Calif., after being sentenced to five days in jail for damaging telephone equipment, Pipe-Fitter Eugene C. Bennett explained to the judge that he cut his phone wire with a paring knife because "I got sick and tired of hearing my wife talking with her mother for an hour and a half...