Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knife used to inflict the wound was found underneath Okrent's body, the source said...
...People who were in a position to identify the knife said it was his," the source added...
...young DeKalb student, Ronald Gaines, had been stabbed to death in a fight with another student. Even more unnerving, the murder occurred in the sight of a crowd of students who were cheering on the two boys and who shouted, "Yeah!" as Gaines fell to the ground with a knife wound to his chest. The school decided an assembly focused on spiritual guidance would provide an environment in which students and parents alike could try to come to terms with the violence. And they thought the very popular pastor of the New Birth Church would be the ideal person...
...Travolta with the chilly, proteanmalevolence of Richard III. Tarantino's Roatis...well, rote. He smirks. He grimaces as ifsomeone left a Royale With Cheese rottingbackstage. He "disguises" his voice using accentsso inauthentic, they make your high school dramaclub look like the Royal Shakespeare Company. Hegleefully brandishes a long, serrated knife withall the panache of a gawky video store clerk. Ifnothing else, you can tell he's having a goodtime...
Neither I nor any other veteran of the First World War can quarrel honorably with the Colonel's sincere pacifism. But his choice of a simile, "We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife," seems to me singularly unhappy. It is an insult to the medical profession...