Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorist, with coat of arms indicating Irish, P.L.O., Argentinian, Angolan-quartered with Lebanese, Italian, American and a few other good lines -bearing a handgun, rifle, submachine gun, knife, grenade and or bomb, with crossed bandoliers and fear rampant...
...becomes a victim in Murder By Death, his first movie as an actor instead of a screenwriter. Capote allowed as how a night in the slammer was welcome respite from his daytime job. "Making movies is hard work," burbled Truman. "They had me lying on the floor with a knife in my back for two days...
...wife downstairs to call the police. McKinnon then discovered that Knight had died of multiple stab wounds. He and the intruder grappled, and the man ran into the hallway and jumped into the elevator with Rosemary. The man threw Rosemary to the floor and flailed at her with a knife. She fought for her life by kicking up at him. Although she suffered two wounds, she was able to run off the elevator when it jolted to a stop. By the time the police arrived, her attacker had escaped...
...country. I left a little farm in the state of Michoacan in 1942, and I would not return there for anything. I never went to school. Here my children go to school." Ortega and his family of eight live in a single-room jacale at "La Cuchilla" (The Knife), a squatters' community on a ledge high above El Trotche. His food bill is $4 a day, and he must somehow find money for school uniforms and books for the children. To help out, his wife works as a laundress...
...fallback position that can be taken up when despair threatens to turn into self-destruction. It is to restore that faint possibility for his fellow inmates that McMurphy ultimately acts without understanding what he is doing. The revolt he leads can only put him under the lobotomizer's knife. Instead, to keep hope alive, his friend, an Indian named Chief Bromden, kills him: if McMurphy is a martyr, his deeds become the stuff of life-sustaining mythology for his wardmates...