Word: knifings
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...America's cup yachtsman. Raised in a rough, mixed-race township on South Africa's Cape of Good Hope peninsula, he had to prove himself as a street fighter long before he ever climbed aboard a sailboat. In his early teens, he fraternized with local gangs and got in knife fights. These days, however, he puts his strength into grinding winches and helping to trim the mainsail of a sleek, 25-m America's Cup?class racing yacht. Burricks' journey from local tough guy to élite sailor is just one of the remarkable stories to come from Africa...
...Thrifty Big Spender Caspar Weinberger, who died March 28, earned the nickname "Cap the Knife" for slashing budgets in the Nixon and Ford administrations. But TIME's July 27, 1981, cover story explained how, as President Ronald Reagan's Defense Secretary, Weinberger oversaw the rebuilding of the U.S. military-a project that cost a record $2 trillion...
...you’re trying to rid yourself of pain, but it sounds like [writing “Pinkerton”] was a really powerful experience because of the pain that you went through. Do you feel like you still need to stick a knife into yourself, emotionally...
...Having relocated to Southern California, living in Lawndale in a trailer owned by her neighbors Esther Trevin, 67, and her 77-year-old husband, Bettie unprovokedly attacked Esther with a knife and was subdued by Mr. Trevin, who, after warning Bettie to drop the knife, knocked her out with a crescent wrench. Charged on two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, Bettie was found not guilty by reason of insanity...
...June 12, 1982: At four that morning, while a boarder in the Santa Monica home of Leonie Haddad, she entered the bedroom of her sleeping landlady, straddled her and shook her awake, brandishing a foot-long serrated bread knife and whispering, "God has inspired me to kill you!" She attacked Haddad, "slicing her from the corner of her mouth to her ear ... Bettie stabbed Haddad four times in the chest, narrowly missing her heart... stabbed the hand eight times, severing the top of Haddad's third finger." Summoned by Haddad, police "found Bettie in the shower with her clothes...