Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sneer gives a suggestion of Eastern inscrutability. Captain Carruthers, played by Roger Livesey, foils his plans with the legendary stolid determination of the British colonial officers. Livesey's characterization is so stereotyped that, at times, it almost sinks to burlesque. Somebody, however, usually shows up in time with a knife or a machine gun to keep the plot happily rolling and to leave any thoughts of character study forgotten...
...Great Britain." Compared with Chicago, Glasgow's crime statistics make it seem like a haven of peace, but in its twisted cobblestone alleys and dingy, Dickensian slums lurk hundreds of drunks, thugs and pickpockets. London's Sunday Pictorial warned Graham what to expect: "These thugs prefer the knife and the knuckleduster to Christ and crusaders...
...With a Message. In reply, Billy offered the spiritual knife of his preaching and the high-pressure knuckle-duster of U.S.-style evangelism. Five thousand special buses and 83 special trams stood by.Graham's advance guard placarded all Scotland with his picture. But the Scots needed little urging; they flocked to hear him. Said the Rev. A. Nevile Davidson, Minister of Glasgow: "God has sent a man with a message at the right moment...
...life has been spent in crowds," said Jawaharlal Nehru last month, "and I feel isolated if bodyguards come in the way between me and the people." In the central Indian city of Nagpur last week, a man with a knife came out of a crowd, and for ten seconds there was nothing between Jawaharlal Nehru and death...
...this point, an alert police superintendent grappled with the stranger, a wiry man in a bright green shirt and red shorts. The superintendent wrenched a rusty, four-inch clasp knife out of his hand, threw him to the ground and whisked him off to the police station before the angry crowd could get at him. Nehru, cool as ice, barely stopped smiling at the crowd and pressing his palms together in the traditional Hindu greeting. "You don't want to take risks?" he told his agitated followers. "Then don't take them." Nehru thought that the would...