Word: stabbing
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...promised, Ruth didn't take up much of Eddie's time. She was all set to stab him with a paring knife, but he got past her and plunked himself down in an armchair. "I have a surprise for you," she said. She fumbled in the closet for the loaded rifle and waved it in his face. "For two years," she said, "you've been bothering me and now you're going...
Harvard's hapless basketball team came closer to winning a game Saturday night than in 13 previous attempts, but a desperation stab by Cornell's Tom Turner in the final three seconds of play brought the walls tumbling down on the Crimson for the fourteenth consecutive time--the Ithacans...
Just before last week's Communist stab through the Nationalist Huai River defense line (see above), TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin made a visit to the Huai front. His report...
Unsuccessful Hunting. Nobody harpooned the even more mythical white whale known as the "Great American Novel." Indiana's Ross Lockridge (who later committed suicide) made a stab at it; he brought home a huge, Ulysses-like animal named Raintree County, which was hailed by critics as a monumental attempt and then floated away in an embarrassed silence. Silence was the kindest treatment of Remembrance Rock, Carl Sandburg's large, muddled, impassioned effort to learn lessons for the future from a study of the American past...
Shankar has included about 60 dance sequences-of peasants and gods, love and death, of factories and demons. Swords clash and warriors strut; lovers grieve and stab themselves; workers are whipped; gods curse; a group of students rebel against their teachers. In all these dances, Shankar uses only Indian instruments, the ancient ragas (modes), and the hundreds of gestures-a bent finger, a turned-up toe, a roll of the eyes-that have carried the same meanings to Indians for centuries...