Word: knifings
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...join her husband who already works there. When Magnus first overheard her saying that her work permit had been approved, he asked, "If you leave, who will I eat ice cream with on the lawn?" The innocent question haunts her. "Simple, but ..." She finishes the sentence by miming a knife jabbing into her chest...
...Mitt Romney, 2008's also-ran? Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty? Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, whom some look to as a Republican Obama? The party's spectacular collapse has spawned a wide-open struggle for the throne, and the long knives are already out. How's Palin with a knife? Ask the moose...
...distorted guitar accentuate the vaguely Eastern-sounding piano opening. With his voice sounding the thinnest, the roughest, the hungriest it has since “Good Feeling,” Healy sharply attacks the chorus, really laying into lyrics about betrayal: “It’s the knife in your back / It’s the heart attack / It’s the way you look back before you step out / In time to see the shadow of the one that’s cutting you down.” The song concludes with J. Smith?...
...beginning of the 1960s, though, liberalism was becoming a victim of its own success. The post-World War II economic boom flooded America's colleges with the children of a rising middle class, and it was those children, who had never experienced life on an economic knife-edge, who began to question the status quo, the tidy, orderly society F.D.R. had built. For blacks in the South, they noted, order meant racial apartheid. For many women, it meant confinement to the home. For everyone, it meant stifling conformity, a society suffocated by rules about how people should dress, pray, imbibe...
...without mutual consent - a provision that was challenged to no avail by Fidel Castro following the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The denial of his request to return the land to Cuba by President Eisenhower paved the way for escalated tensions between the two countries; Fidel later called it "a knife stuck in the heart of Cuba's dignity and sovereignty...