Word: slit
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FUNDAMENTAL SPIEGEL'S black polyester jersey with back slit. Perfect for a day at the office and then a night on the town...
...questions haven’t stopped, not since December of my senior year, when that acceptance letter fell through a slit in our front door. Long Island is flush with stellar public schools, and it isn’t easy to justify the more radical aspects of Waldorf education—for example, the aversion to competition, the policy on teaching reading relatively late in child development—in an increasingly accelerated society. Ironically, the fact that I go to Harvard—according to my high school principal, the first grad to do so since the mid-1970s?...
...remembered an especially chilling moment as a 16-year-old when one of his close Muslim friends suddenly wiped his hand across his neck and said, “One day I would slit the throat of all the Jews...
...Hindu mythology, the goddess is said to have an insatiable appetite for blood. With the law on killing people more strictly enforced today, ersatz substitutes now stand in for humans when sacrifice is required. Most Kali temples have settled on large pumpkins to represent a human body; other followers slit the throats of two-meter-tall human effigies made of flour, or of animals such as goats...
...rough it is on the streets. In 1974, when he was a 24-year-old rookie, a man holed himself up in a house and threatened to kill his wife. Reichert went in through a window alone and got the woman out, but was surprised by the man, who slit Reichert's throat open with a butcher's knife. Reichert got 45 stitches. The scar, shaped like a long pink sickle, slices down the right side of his neck...