Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herbert preferred an older precedent: that of "Mr. Purcell, a septuagenarian of County Cork, who in 1811 was knighted for killing four burglars with a carving knife. That, I feel, is the spirit...
...when other businesses were going to pot, Keating streamlined his spatulas, basting spoons, kitchen strainers, etc. into atched sets with nine color combinations. Result: sales tripled. To boost his sales of knives, he put out sets of six or more in safe and handsome "holdsters"; his cut of the knife market doubled in six months. Keating claims he was first on the market with the gear-type can opener; now he has made his original model obsolete by a new one that opens bottles, punctures beer cans and removes vacuum caps as well. To keep the steam in pressure cooker...
...attain such mass production, Engineer Keating developed many special machines. From his $400,000 research laboratory have come such devices as a wire-former that automatically shapes strainer forms at a clip of 1,500 an hour, a woodworking machine that turns out knife handles in one operation instead of four, a sharpener for potato peeler blades that is so safe and automatic that its operators read the comics while feeding blades into...
Then comes the beheading, performed with ceremony. The implement used is a bamboo knife. Small children are spared and adopted, in the hope that they will tell the names of the unidentified dead...
Slow Burn. In Colombes, France, Fernand Bria stabbed his friend Ramon Coll in the chest with a hunting knife, admitted to police that he had been brooding for some time over Coil's seduction of his wife 27 years...