Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jacques the Knife," as Chirac is now known in some quarters, is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), stubborn, impatient, ill-tempered at times-and unusually effective in getting things done. Born into a well-to-do Paris family, Chirac began his rise to power in 1962, when at the age of 30 he landed a job on the staff of Pompidou, then De Gaulle's Premier. Chirac's talents as a fixer and arranger made him indispensable to Pompidou, who fondly called him "my bulldozer." He included him in the small circle of staffers with whom he would...
...Over in the Left Bank student quarter, meanwhile, small knots of young people gathered under the watchful gaze of riot police to shout sullenly, and absurdly, "A victory for fascism!" Such were the sharply distinct reactions to longtime Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's knife-edge victory over Socialist Françoise Mitterrand in France's presidential runoff last week...
...year-old printer's clerk and she, a 33-year-old tax officer-were not particularly well equipped. Before Auralyn sank, they salvaged 33 cans of food, ranging from steak-and-kidney-pie filling to treacle, along with a variety of plastic containers for collecting rain water, a knife and a handful of safety pins. Incredibly, the Baileys' emergency kit did not contain fishhooks; the pins enabled them to catch small fish. Big turtles let themselves be grabbed by a flipper and, with some difficulty, wrestled aboard and butchered...
...Atlanta, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and they been pickin' up real great in the last couple of years. These toys are made by authentic local Blue Ridge people, entirely in the home. There isn't no factory. They can make most of em with just a pocket knife, in a little shed beside the house or just inside." Are they packaged at home too, or in a central place? "Well, no, we got a little place near Beach Creek, a central place where they're packaged." And do the people gather the materials or what? "Well they either gather...
...Edith was met by Emil Stengelé, a wealthy Zurich art-gallery owner who has bought the many paintings she made in prison for exhibition later this month. Her time behind bars revealed Edith's tough side: she disarmed an inmate who was attacking a guard with a knife. In June, she plans to pick up her two sons from Clifford, who is on parole in Manhattan, and take them to live with her in Ibiza. "Clifford and I plan to get a divorce," she said. "It has nothing to do with the Hughes affair but is a normal...