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Word: knifings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reform what he did for the MX -- make a lot of phone calls and twist a lot of arms." Even then, the board agreed, the bill's prospects will hardly be assured. Said | Greenspan: "Anyone who thinks this is going to run through Congress like a hot knife through butter has not observed the political process in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Cheers for Reagan's Plan | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...most primitive level, it must be admitted, Rambo works. Its hero is like a sullen but gorgeously sculpted James Bond, impervious to pain, implacable in the face of impossible odds and impeccable in his skill with any weapon that comes to hand, be it his own customized bowie knife or the Vietnamese helicopter he casually appropriates for the finale. The long sequences in which he builds his body count to inestimable levels are well designed and well executed by Director Cosmatos. They are, in fact, so compelling that one tends to chortle in anticipation of Rambo's next superhero ploy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Danger: Live Moral Issues Rambo: First Blood Part II | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...research into particle beams -- streams of atoms or subatomic particles with great penetrating power that could theoretically kill warheads. Says Duston: "If we can improve the focusing and control the beam strength, we could use beams for nontraumatic surgery in areas (of the body) currently inaccessible to the knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wagons Hitched to Star Wars: NATO allies consider participating | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...themselves, confronting the reality? How many women, if their tiny, living, little son or daughter were before their eyes, could tear off his or her limbs one-by-one and then the head (as in a suction abortion) or cut the little one to pieces with a knife (as in a D&C)? And how could anyone do this--or who makes the preposterous claim that any human being has a right to do this--say that he or she is pro-life? Michael Pakaluk '79 Philosophy Teaching Fellow

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Abortion | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

...interactive fiction games, with a parser that recognizes adjectives, prepositions and pronouns as well as nouns and verbs. The improved parser permits players to display their literary bent by using more complex commands. Zork I, for instance, will respond to more expansive instructions (example: pick up the rusty knife and put it in the sack). Partly as a result, Zork I became the best-selling disk-based game of all time (500,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Stepping into the Story | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

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