Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Robbins the thief apparently tore off the central portion of the collage by hand or with a knife, leaving part of the painting and the frame intact...
Some might call the noncompetitive performance a hollow triumph, native sports do not even call for medals. There are, however, gold, silver and bronze ulus (medals shaped like the Eskimo whale-skinning knife) for individual and team winners in such conventional sports as cross-country skiing, figure skating, basketball, ice hockey and table tennis. The combination of exotic native feats and intense territorial rivalry have made the games the liveliest sporting event north of the 60th parallel...
...tended lawns. Medea, more pagan than Jason, misses her old life, and Jason, who neglects her, is little comfort. Using what little magic is left to her, she contrives to murder the princess who has replaced her in Jason's heart, but her own children she kills with a knife...
...from his plate, but "started to shout abuse . . . The worst thing he called me was a pimp, which rather flattered me. But what hurt was that there he was, a northern Italian, threatening me, a southern Italian, with physical violence. That was roughly equivalent to Einstein pulling a knife on Al Capone...
...helping them to help others, the course has benefited the bartenders themselves. A woman graduate who admitted she was once "the meanest barmaid in town" learned to be less provocative and more conciliatory. Recently she talked one patron out of shooting her husband and another out of wielding a knife in a fight at the pool table in her tavern...