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Word: knifings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Within two weeks seven boys waylay Dadier in an alley and beat, kick and gouge him into insensibility. The horny-handed principal and the cynical older instructors are no help to Rick Dadier in his attempts to awaken his pupils' bored, backward minds. When one boy pulls a knife on him, Dadier fights furiously, gets his arm slashed -and the class suddenly sides with him. The knifer is pinned down by other boys, and Dadier senses that there is a law of sorts in the blackboard jungle after all. He is even allowed to march the culprit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...youth is being held at the Cambridge police department, where charges of attempted larceny and possession of a switch blade knife will probably be made against him. Cambridge police officers Lee O. Davenport and William Killion made the arrest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Teenager Caught Rifling Car in Alley Behind Winthrop House | 10/5/1954 | See Source »

...delta city of Tanta, another imam accused Egypt's rulers of being "heretics who do not comply with the teaching of the Koran." When a worshiper objected to such mingling of politics with religion, Moslem Brothers set upon the protester, and the imam himself leaped from his pulpit, knife in hand, to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Censoring Sermons | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...Mind. In Philadelphia, after Harry Stone, 44. walked into the Einstein Medical Center and complained that he had suffered severe headaches for several years, surgeons began removing a 32-inch knife blade that had been embedded in his skull for 28 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...Brain surgery can now be performed with greater precision, using ultrasonic vibrations (a million cycles per second, or 50 times faster than the highest audible note) instead of the neurosurgeon's knife. University of Illinois researchers have focused the beam down to one-twentieth of an inch in diameter-the thickness of a pencil lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

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