Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King" Howland (Charlton Heston), a fellow who owns the best part of Kauai-and that ain't Welfare Island. But winning her hand is quite another matter. Big Brother draws the color line, and when Darren tries to cross it, he just happens to fall on a knife that Heston just happens to be holding...
...tycoon's blonde daughter. The tycoon's colored butler-old-fashioned enough to do a bit of praying. The butler's honey-colored sexpot daughter. The Japanese gardener's son. A dreamy Hawaiian-Chinese girl. An Italian-American gangster-gigolo type with a switch knife. A gas-meter reader. An Ivy League dope engaged to the tycoon's daughter...
...effort to establish genuine communication. He ends with a long story about his unsuccessful attempt to make friends with a dog by half killing it. Seeing that his efforts to reach Peter are also a failure, Jerry offers himself as a sacrificial dog, impaling himself on a knife he has dared the older man to hold. His death proves nothing, except that such real communications are hard to achieve...
...Augie sits in the meat cooler. Augie is so suety that on a warm day the cooler is the only place he can keep his body heat down. In comes one of his hoods to report a botched heist. Augie pulls a wicked knife, slams the hood against a meathook, and threatens to make him look like a slab of Grade A Prime. A woman in pink slacks, straw hat and cowboy boots interrupts. "Peter, darling," she husks, "hold the knife this way. And make sure we see that sweet meathook...
Nonetheless, Britain's prosperity is poised on a knife edge. In the past decade, its economy has grown only 2½% per year on average; in 1962 it rose only 1%, whereas in the Common Market even a 4% growth rate is considered disappointing. Since 1950, balance-of-payments crises have brought Britain to the brink of bankruptcy six times. By draconian measures the government succeeded last year in boosting exports 3% for a new $11 billion postwar record, helping to maintain gold and hard-currency reserves. However, it was only able to achieve stability by cutting back credit...