Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British lieutenant told how Griffiths made one of his prisoners take off his pants. Then, the witness testified, Griffiths handed his knife to an African private and commanded: "Castrate him." The private, a 16-year-old Somali named Ali Segat, did not obey, so Griffiths changed his order: "Cut off his ear!" With a quick slice, Segat complied
...greatest religious wave in our history sweep the U.S. Arthur Godfrey now talks about religion on television." By the time he wound up, with George Beverly Shea, a member of the Graham team, singing his own composition, I'd Rather Have Jesus Than Anything Else, most of the knife-thoughts had been washed out of the newsmen. A woman reporter found him completely disarming. "He seems to have the sincerity, ingenuousness, the sort of simple charm that is the greatest fun about Americans and the quality that makes us love Danny Kaye...
Sampler. In Columbus, Miss., James C. Pidgeon got a divorce after he testified that his bride drank excessively and threatened him with a knife during the one day they lived together...
...Palace last week, sounding the end of one of the most expensive and generally useless collections of gimcrackery ever assembled. Like a royal pack rat, ex-King Farouk had cached everything he could beg, buy and demand-tiny telescopes with diamond sprays, priceless relics of Pharaonic culture, a 100blade knife, an outstanding coin collection, a Nazi marshal's gaudy baton. Egypt's revolutionary regime was putting all of it-treasure and trash-on the block in a six-week sale. It was the biggest mass merchandising of such bric-a-brac in nearly two centuries. Egypt needs...
...feet up. Built during Europe's Dark Ages, the temples were constructed of granite blocks weighing up to 50 tons each. No one knows how the blocks were heaved into place. Even more impressive is the fact that they were matched and fitted so precisely that a knife blade cannot be slipped between them...