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Word: pillows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down on his back and slashed him four times in the throat leaving the serrated knife buried deep within. He stabbed him four times in the abdomen into the colon, all fatal wounds. He bled to death, helped by the throw pillow with which Tex smothered his face to stop the screams...Not to be outdone. Katie took the carving fork and stabbed both bodies with it. Seven double punctures punctured here and there into the abdomen of Mr. LaBianca, till she left it embedded in his flesh near the navel to the bifur cation of the tines. Katie said...

Author: By John ANTHONY Day, | Title: Is California Dreamin' Becoming a Reality? | 12/10/1971 | See Source »

...lieutenant added, "There are two types of prisoners here--the ones who tell the truth and whom we treat well and then those like you, Jenkins. Shall I order the 'special treatment' for you?" The "special treatment" involved sleeping on a board bed (Pritsche) with a special board pillow, having your breakfast and supper cut down to bread and margarine with a bit of cheese for supper, and losing "lying-down priveleges," which meant you had to sit or stand for sixteen hours a day in your cell with nobody to speak to or anything to read. No matter...

Author: By Lyle Jenkins, | Title: "Please Free Elizabeth" | 10/19/1971 | See Source »

...playing a hand of cards with Jesus Christ). After months of mute anguish, Joe is assigned a pretty young nurse who takes pity on him and even makes love to him. Joe eventually hits on the notion of communicating by tapping out Morse code with his head against the pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Basket Case | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

...schooling handicap. But then again, the boys, who; get only a small allowance each week, aren't subject to the pressures of traveling grown-ups -you know, wasting time with those worthless chickies on the road, migraine headaches, creaking bones, drugs and alcohol-instead, they unwind nightly with pillow fights and card games, Scrabble and Monopoly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Jackson Five at Home | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

...costumes, is superb in every respect. Its somber facade, constructed from grayish lumber, in three tiers of Italianate colonnades, is appropriately weighty in appearance. A quick turn of some stage machinery turns left-stage quickly into Arabella's bedchamber (be careful to watch the metamorphosis in her pillow as her sin and the play's action deepen: first it picks up a red ribbon on the end, then it becomes pure scarlet); a massive crucifix lowered from the ceiling turns right-stage into the friar Bonaventura's cloister. Especially after intermission Vaughan makes very effective use of the traditional alcove...

Author: By James M. Lewis, | Title: Theatre 'Tis Pity She's a Whore at the Loeb this weekend and next | 3/27/1971 | See Source »

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