Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese vase, the Yoshida Liberals brooded and concluded that defeat was sure. At 1 p.m. on the 13th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the Liberal Party made its decision: to resign before a vote. It remained solely thereafter to inform Shigeru Yoshida, and to lay the hara-kiri knife of resignation before him. The party's chosen emissary for this work, a hawk-faced man, turned pale at the prospect of facing the old autocrat, but complied...
MCCARTHY, club in hand, facing Eisenhower, is less dangerous than McCarthy, knife in hand, at Eisenhower's back. Neither the President nor, we believe, a majority of the American people, can forgive or forget McCarthy's outrageous charge that General Eisenhower "urges patience, tolerance and niceties to those who are torturing American uniformed men." If you want to realize the full contemptibility of McCarthy's misrepresentation of the President, just compare the World War II records...
...Hollywood, tearful Crooner Johnnie Ray went under a surgeon's knife for treatment of an abscess in his right foot. Cause of the infection: in an accident possible only in the 20th century, Ray strolled beside a Las Vegas swimming pool last July and speared himself, olivelike, on a dropped Martini toothpick...
...come up here with a knife and slash our best clothes if we didn't leave something...
Walter Lithgow is director of The Knife and has done an excellent job of interpreting the play. The stage business that is his province is expertly handled to further Hal Scott's portrayal. Richard Smithies has less luck with Ward, and is unable to work out some of the lapses in the script. Despite their few defects the plays are quite worth seeing, and today's house deserves to be full...