Word: knifings
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...like substances which the report described as marijuana and psilocybin; a blue purse holding “an off-white waxy substance that was in flakes and a solid yellow chunk of an unknown substance”; a pipe; a 200-gram weight and scale; a large black hunting knife and a small box of rolling papers...
...alleged abuse of women, a Muslim with suspected terrorist ties was arrested for the murder, touching off a religious backlash that reached all the way to Parliament. As one politician went into hiding after being marked for death in a letter pinned to van Gogh's body with a knife, the right-wing coalition government proposed closing radical mosques, ramping up monitoring of foreign imams and stripping suspected extremists of their Dutch passports. "There is way too much political correctness in the Netherlands, and now we're paying for it," says Geert Wilders, another politician who went into hiding after...
...time, opened a caf?-cum-theater called Cabaret Voltaire, where Tzara, Hans Arp and other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous as their free-form art. They randomly inserted a knife into a French-German dictionary; it pointed to the word dada, an archaic French term for a hobbyhorse. At the height of the movement, the Cabaret provided a venue for young nihilist artists to experiment, exchange ideas and make fun of conventional...
Former President George H.W. Bush was in the White House when the tally of his son's victory came through, and while he could feel the pride, his public demeanor was as controlled as it had been throughout the knife-edge campaign. "Our lives have never ended in the White House," he explained during the heat of the campaign's final days. "We don't live and die for the limelight or the head table or the plaque. George didn't think about losing, never discussed what it would be like to lose...
...Child Left Behind. Then there are the morals monitors, who sometimes balk at more adventuresome children's material. When the Dallas Children's Theater three years ago staged Laurie Brooks' Deadly Weapons, a play about teen violence, the Fort Worth school district stayed away because a knife was brandished on stage, violating its zero-tolerance policy on weapons...