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Word: knifings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tearing Down, Digging Up. Of all the cities under the planner's knife, none has been so deeply and continuously committed to renewing itself as the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed: Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Under the Knife, or All For Their Own Good | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...parallel the ritual of the bullfight, and a reader assumes that Celestino's four pains are merely Montherlant's notion of a heart attack. Not so. The police come, flip poor Celestino over, and discover "four thin clean holes which might have been made by a knife or sword." Has Celestino been murdered in some highly symbolic fashion? Apparently not; nor is there any hint that the supernatural is involved. Celestino's death is, rather, superliterary. He is the first character in the history of the novel to be killed by a wholly nonexistent symbol. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of an Anarchist | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

Tchula: COFO staff member arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, a bread knife. Car impounded. Police have set up road blocks and are interrogating people who attend local COFO community center...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: A Typical Week in Mississippi: COFO Hears of Many Incidents | 10/7/1964 | See Source »

...undergraduate and a Law School alumnus subdued a 19-year-old, knife-carrying youth in the Radcliffe Quad Saturday night as he was attacking a Radcliffe girl in the bushes outside Cabot Hall...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Youth Foiled In Attack On Radcliffe Girl | 10/5/1964 | See Source »

...younger Robinson who edits a literary magazine, said he had been attracted by commotion near the Yard and saw Robbins crossing Massachusetts Ave., his hand bleeding. He said the youth, knife in hand, started toward Garden St., staggering as if drunk. As he crossed the street he lunged at a passing cyclist with the knife...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Youth Foiled In Attack On Radcliffe Girl | 10/5/1964 | See Source »

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