Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...child died instantly. A ten-year-old boy, witnesses testified, was dragged from his house and shot, and half a dozen teen-agers were lined up against a wall and gunned down. One 14-year-old boy was tortured by guardsmen, who cut open his chest with a knife...
...only about one shooting murder per 2.27 million people (50 such killings in all); the U.S. total was one per 20,267 (or 10,698 in all). The Japanese did commit 1,075 other murders, but their methodology runs to the more intimate contact weapon, such as the kitchen knife or the blunt instrument...
...gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife...
...Pier Four. Not that there wasn't a goodly share of staggering bodies--between the bar and the sheer crush of it all--but something was definitely missing. The faithful had pitched camp, sweating in their polyester skins and listening to the too-slick band that played "Mack the Knife" too slow and then sprinted through "Stardust". But the scavengers--curious little fish that nose around a campaign for a few months and then, once the blood is spilled, turn around and feed off the winner, tearing off little scraps like state jobs and discreet kickbacks--they weren't there...
Goods found in the apartment included jewelry, radios, cassette tape players, clothing and a knife the police believe was used in the breaking and entering...