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Word: knifings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard also has 6-10 Bob McCabe in the wings, but McLaughlin isn't drooling because of Bob's questionable knees. Speaking of injuries, sophomore Bob Sims returns after a frosh campaign cut short by the surgeon's knife. Sims averaged 13 points in the two games he did play before injury and joins fellow soph Mark Harris and rookie Tom Clarke at forward depth slots...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Harvard Hoop: A New Look and a Tough Slate | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...More efficient," says Baldrige. Asparagus and very crisp bacon may be eaten with the fingers, and salad may be cut with a knife, she ordains. (The old stricture against cutting salad with a knife was meant to spare the hostess's silver-plated blade, which could be corroded by vinegar dressing.) But it still is "heresy to cut spaghetti." Somewhat conservatively, Baldrige advises that fried chicken "should be eaten with the fingers only on such occasions as picnics, barbecues, boat rides and other informal outdoor gatherings." As for caviar, "never take more than a teaspoonful, or you will have everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...characteristic detail, the telling anecdote. George Gissing, a 19th century novelist scarred by neglect, wrote in the hesitant manner of one who, "anxious to avoid appearing gauche or conspicuous, may sometimes be caught glancing furtively round to make sure that he is about to use the right knife and fork." Edward FitzGerald, the reclusive translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, waved away a dubious bowl of pudding at his wedding breakfast with the exclamation, "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid!" Ireland is found "so melancholy, so full of the ghosts of feuds and famines, the clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minor Master | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...Blumenthal deserves some criticism; in addition to his early waffling on the dollar, he badly misread the state of the economy last January. On the other hand, he has been the target of sniping from the White House staff ever since they got the idea he was putting the knife into Bert Lance. Besides, Carter prefers to decide everything himself, listening first to one adviser, then another, and meanwhile his "team" voices a babble of conflicting ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rescue the Dollar | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

MACHEATH HAS TO be a man of the world who knows how to survive, who's grown a little shabby, a little scruffy, perhaps, but who keeps his sense of style along with his white gloves. Allen C. Kennedy's Mack the Knife sounds like a two-bit punk who got lost in Flatbush and somehow ended up in London, 1830. It's not necessarily a wrong-headed interpretation, but it needs strength, consistency, and a sense of Macheath's age--and Kennedy gives it none of these...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Threepennys Worth--Barely | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

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