Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion to cut off Dixon-Yates would probably have failed even as an isolated issue. But Cannon, who has a massive reputation as an astute parliamentary tactician, stupidly built in certain defeat when he diverted money to the Fulton public power plant. Many Northern Democrats were willing enough to knife Dixon-Yates, but few would vote for more Government-subsidized power for the South-power that would inevitably attract more migratory industry from the North...
...flatly refused. Finally, O'Tarrell told him to clear out, but the boy retorted: "You put me out." "I'll escort you out,'' said O'Tarrell, and took the teen-ager by the arm. At that point, the boy pulled a switchblade knife out of his pocket, shook himself free, and plunged the blade twice into O'Tarrell's back. As five other stunned school employees and more than a hundred pupils stared in silence, he fled into the street...
...took the police only a few hours to find him. Jose Vargas, 15, nicknamed "Chico Mambo'' because "I cut a cute rug." had a long history of delinquency (he was once arrested for holding up a younger boy at knife point), proudly announced that he had not been in school since April. He was also apparently proud of the stabbing. When photographers snapped his picture, it was of just one more arrogant, smirking young hoodlum who knows no law but that of the blackboard jungle. Said seriously injured Teacher O'Tarrell, when asked...
Black Horror. The car was shattered by the impact: its flat motor hood ripped loose and scythed through spectators like a guillotine knife. The heavy engine followed, spewing parts. The first row of the crowd was cleanly decapitated. Twenty yards away, the chassis cut another swath. Gasoline took fire; then the Mercedes' magnesium-alloy body went up in a searing white flame. Levegh's headless corpse was burned to a crisp. A 400-sq. yd. stretch of gay and cheering people became a black, hysterical horror...
Last week the diggers found a shallow grave containing the skeleton of a young man close to seven feet tall. His shield, spear and knife identified him as a Saxon of the early fifth century. All his limbs were broken, according to the pagan burial custom (perhaps to cripple the ghost), and the back of his skull had been bashed in. The diggers hoped that one of the Britons of Puddle Hill had liquidated at least one of the monstrous Saxons...