Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knockwursts let off steam whenever a fork and knife approached and the fried clams made like a lot of undergraduates--after being caught, they apparently took a year off. Let's say they tasted like...
...never been officially sanctioned, Western masters from Blake to De Kooning have left a massive catalogue of inspired religious works. Yet Amis inserts frequent reminders that the price of such beauty and serenity is totalitarianism. A rebellious priest who tries to keep Hubert from the surgeon's knife is brutally murdered...
Chirac's political turnabouts-first against Jacques Chaban-Delmas, the Gaullist candidate in 1974, then against President Valery Giscard d'Estaing-have earned him a reputation as an opportunist. Chaban still privately refers to him as a "traitor." Others have called him "Jacques the Knife," and some cynical members of Giscard's Independent Republicans characterized the dramatic rally at which he launched his renamed party as "smacking of Nuremberg." Those who know Chirac well-including foreign diplomats-are positive he is no "closet fascist," though he is staunchly conservative. He is against nationalization and NATO, for free...
...knew, I was here on the floor. Eight Puerto Ricans piled in and started hitting me with broom handles. They hit poor Peggy on the head with a hammer. They picked through this drawer and found $60 worth of quarters. Then one of them bent over me with a knife, holding it to my throat. 'Shall I kill him now?' he asked another guy. And the other guy said, 'No, the boss doesn't want him hurt...
...were taken to the island as part of the fraternity's initiation rites and told to play the part of war prisoners withholding military secrets. Playing Fitzgerald's interrogator was James Savino, 21, a cadet officer in the ROTC unit. Savino emphasized his questions by jabbing a knife into the narrow plaque.Somehow one jab missed the target. The knife plunged through the main artery of Fitzgerald's heart, killing...