Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Negro servant, well known for his loyalty to Mrs. Eileen Ennis, one of Mombasa's 2,000 whites. He returned to the Ennis household with two panga knives, slashed Mrs. Ennis and stabbed her sleeping daughter. When the police arrived, the Mau Mau had thrust a knife into his own chest, and was desperately trying to electrocute himself at the household fuse box. ¶In Wakamba territory, southeast of Nairobi, a gang of screaming tribesmen, shooting pistols and poisoned arrows, attacked a veterinary inspector at Machakos. "We want your head!"they screamed, but Dick McCausland, with...
Calumny. In Adams, Wis., the Adams County Times carried this personal notice: "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Stop the evil gossip that I used a butcher knife on my husband, Walter. It is not so . . . Mrs. Walter Buchanan...
...three women walked through the dimly-lit Common, the attacker is said to have suddenly jumped from the shadows and knocked down one of them. Their frantic screams were answered by two passersby who grappled with the drunken man until he appeared to reach for a knife. He field on foot. The two men walked the women home, advising them to phone the police...
...mining claim won in a card game, and astride a horse stolen from honest Farmer Robert Mitchurn. After Rory, on a raft, come Widower Mitchum, his ten-year-old son (Tommy Rettig) and Actress Monroe. In making the trek, Mitchum wrestles in turn with a mountain lion, a knife-wielding badman, several Indians, and Marilyn. She gives him by far the toughest scrap. Mitchum also plays a scene calculated to set up a wolf-call cacophony from one end of the nation to the other: he sternly tells a drenched Marilyn to get undressed, and then gives her a brisk...
...Dark. The most primitive of these barbarians were the Guaharibos. They lived in the depths of the forest, and Gheerbrant concluded that they "had remained on earth by an anthropological anachronism." They had no implements of iron or stone, not even a hatchet or a knife. They did not know how to build huts or make canoes, did no farming and went about naked. Sometimes they practiced cannibalism. Mostly they ate what was easily come upon: "wild berries, marsh flowers full of earthworms, caterpillars and insects, and even earth." About all that distinguished them from animals was that they could...