Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silence as leaders of the Old Dominions and the new nations of Africa and Asia challenged their onetime imperial ruler's right to decide her own future. Cried Jamaica's ebullient Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante: "The Treaty of Rome is like a surgeon's knife thrust into the body of the Commonwealth, cutting off one member from another, dividing one friend from another." One of the angriest tirades of all came from Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who warned: "We have spent 100 years resisting the magnetic pull of the United States. This will...
...went on with seven more hours of interviewing, and at one point, to check the story that Dirksen keeps his pants pockets full of enough odds and ends to cover a variety-store counter, he asked the Senator to empty the contents on the spot. Dirksen complied: a pocket knife, a St. Christopher medal, an empty leather pillbox, a cold sniffer, an odd-shaped piece of rough jade, a magnifying reading glass, a 1955 medal of the Kewanee. Ill., Masonic Lodge, a silver dollar money clip, two heavily burdened key rings, and a quarter...
...people wounded, and 12,000 armed attacks," got only life imprisonment? He recalled that France has traditionally been lenient toward political assassins since the public revulsion over the fate of Damiens, Louis XV's valet, who was tortured and killed after grazing his master with a knife during an unsuccessful attempt on his life...
Shaken Government. As the plane neared London, last stop before the hop across the Atlantic, Soblen stabbed himself in the abdomen with a steak knife while McShane was out of the compartment. Soblen was not attempting to commit suicide; he was trying to wound himself just enough to be hospitalized in Britain, thereby gaining time to try to obtain asylum...
Five weeks after skipping $100,000 bail to avoid life imprisonment in the U.S. for wartime espionage, Convicted Soviet Spy Dr. Robert Soblen, 61, was refused asylum in Britain, as he had been in Israel. Expertly carving himself up with a steak knife as he was being returned to the U.S. aboard an El Al Israel Airlines jet, Soblen gained a stay in London, but British judges were unmoved by his plea of illness and persecution. Britain's Home Secretary told Parliament: "Dr. Soblen is a fugitive from a sentence imposed on him by the courts of a country...