Word: slit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ladies there is, for instance, the medieval equivalent of the cold shower: the feel of icy armor against warm bosom. For the men there are the more elaborate pleasures of the fray, such as "The Red Eagle": a pet Norse revenge, in which a man's belly is slit from side to side, and his lungs hauled out through the opening. Otherwise, it is the story of a Danish slave boy, Ogier, who wins his freedom and roves with the Viking freebooters from Iceland to Italy. In the end, he marries a princess and sails with her to discover...
...clock one morning last week, the heavy tread of a Chinese artillery barrage marched across a Korean hillside near the 38th parallel. Sitting in a slit trench, a U.S. private caught the blast of a shell exploding in front of him. A tiny, singing splinter drove through his skull and lodged in his brain. In the foggy depths of consciousness, the private heard his buddy screaming, "Medics, damn it! Medics...
...feet, roaring for the early kill. But Maxim bounced right back, set about giving Challenger Murphy a thorough lesson in the art of boxing. He began stinging Murphy with neat jabs, by the third round had Irish Bob's right eye swollen to a mere slit. When Murphy tried to close with the champion, Maxim tied him up completely; whenever they separated, Maxim's fists kept drumming on Murphy's cast-iron jaw. In the final rounds, Maxim had hit his opponent so often, if not so hard, that he took to sparing his aching hands, coasting...
Catching On. In Brooklyn, police watched Tom Yacenda playing catch with his brother who was up in a second story window, then arrested the pair on a bookmaking charge when they discovered that Tom was fitting betting slips and money into a slit in the ball...
...practitioners of the 17th Century were Thomas Wilmot and William Cady. Once when a lady's ring refused to come off her finger, Highwayman Wilmot cut off the one to get the other; when one lady swallowed her wedding ring to keep it from his clutches, Highwayman Cady slit her belly open and took the ring anyway. Nevertheless, such ferocities were few, especially for an age that hanged a man as promptly for simple theft as for murder...