Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fundamental Fairness. Weinfeld was ruling on the habeas corpus petition of a Latvian named Almars Elksnis who killed his wife with a kitchen knife during a marital fray at their North Tarrytown, N.Y., home one hot night in June 1955. Because he had been in jail once before for another stabbing, Elksnis was a twotime loser headed for a heavy sentence. So when he came before Westchester County Judge George A. Brenner prepared to stand trial on a second-degree murder charge, he could not but accept Brenner's offer: "If you will plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter...
...blackleg and hemorrhagic septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi's, grinned proudly. "The boys are doing fine, just fine-they're going to make real fine cowboys," he said...
...beneath the fear, she found a sinister love of death. She longed to feel the knife not carve, but enter
...pious, faithful, impoverished, with only one book dedicated to her, and that "published at the author's expense." She had not wept for her father, and she told her sister that it would be "the same for Maman." Yet, on the night that her mother went under the knife, "I went home; I talked to Sartre; we played some Bartok. Suddenly, at eleven, an outburst of tears that almost degenerated into hysteria. Amazement...
There was a time when Kenyans solved their political problems with the panga, a two-foot-long bush knife that the Man Mau terrorists wielded to bloody effect against British rule. Independence and parliamentary government demand more subtle solutions. Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, whom the British once jailed as the master of the Mau Mau, has been quick to adapt...