Word: slittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leave, they called on the village headman to lead them to the house of Vegetable Farmer Chou Yin-san. Said a villager later: "The headman had to show them Chou's house. After he did, they didn't say anything. Chou looked at them inquiringly. They slit his throat." By this act (standard for suspected police informers), the Communists signaled to all Southeast Asia the fact that they were as ruthlessly opposed to the now democratic government of Malaya as they had been to colonialism...
...girls in their tight slit dresses and the boys in custom-made pistol pants, the "school is a clubhouse, a place of amusement, a convenient place for getting cheap lunches, meeting friends." It is also the haven of the problem child, to whom some schools become completely geared. "He is petted, excused, and studied out of all proportion. He is the man of the hour, and he knows it ... I think that many children made themselves problem children simply because they saw how important they could become...
...also dampened. The new "people's democracy" across the East China Sea had sent some 3,500 products to the fair, including bicycles, pheasant feathers, automatic coal conveyors, tiger skins, machine tools, jade trinkets, generators, fountain pens and even a batch of Shanghai-style dresses with enticing slit skirts, a fashion the Reds banned as "decadent" in their regime's first days...
...atherosclerosis victims. Surgeons in many cities can now cut out a diseased, bottleneck section of the aorta and use a graft from a frozen artery bank as a splint while the patient's own aorta heals. For similar roadblocks in the femoral (thigh) arteries, the surgeon may slit the artery lengthwise, scrape off the diseased deposits, and sew it up again...
...play, in all this, only emphasizes how little its peasant psychology and hot Sicilian natures have in common with highborn Greek tragedy. Only now and then does there jut up the fated blundering of life, and the pity of it. Far oftener it seems no Furies' shears that slit, but the vendetta's dagger, not prideful man that falls, but tormented beast...