Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story apartment on Chicago's North Side, an obese Appalachian woman grunted heavily as she heaved herself off the army blanket covering her bed. She flicked off the stained TV and said: "I've got trouble. My 14-year-old, he just got stabbed in the eye with a knife. The doctor's afraid he's goinq to lose it." Another son, a towheaded boy with a soot-smeared face, gave up playing with his bare toes and rapped the iron bedstead with a broken piece of cast iron. His mother rapped him clear across the room. The woman...
...dozen countries. French schoolgirls hang his photo in their boudoirs alongside those of movie idols, and students at the London School of Economics now greet each other with the salutation "Che." Peruvian grammar-school children hold hands, dance in a circle and chant a new nursery rhyme: "With a knife and a spoon, long live Che Guevara...
...weatherbeaten, seafaring sort of man--leaned over, dipped his knife into the butter (which comes in little pewter buckets) and spread some onto his muffin. The muffin crumbled...
...troop commands and consigned them to out-of-the-way desk jobs. It dropped an Olympics official in the department of state sports and dismissed the rector and deputy rector, both Jews, of the Lodz State College of Theater and Film, which has produced such directors as Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) and Jerry Skolimowski (Le Depart). While the purges gained momentum in Warsaw, there were reports from provincial cities of sweeping dismissals also in progress there...
There have been incidents-particularly growing out of the increased stop-and-frisk activity. One 17-year-old Negro was allegedly stripped to his underwear and dangled by his heels from a bridge by two policemen who accused him of carrying a knife. Headley acted fast; both were dismissed the next day and last week were indicted by a federal grand jury. "These men abused their authority," says Headley, "and I won't stand for that...