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Gamecocks kill each other with thrusts of their legs. There are two types of fighters: the shuffler (who strikes as rapidly as his legs can move) and the single-stroker (who waits for an opening, then knocks out his opponent with a well-placed stab). Some matches are over in five seconds, others last 45 minutes; but a really game cock never quits until he can crow over his dead opponent-or is dead himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Secret Sport | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Please go after that reviewer with your sharpest invective and "stab his spirit wide awake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Half-a-dozen gas grenades arched through the window. A moment later six licked convicts stumbled out, but Captain Sanders was not with them. Guardsmen found him on the floor of his office in a pool of blood, covered with fresh stab wounds. A few minutes later in the prison hospital. Captain Sanders died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Captain Sanders' Boys | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...Nashville, and in the smoky old Capitol addressed the Legislature with a stirring denunciation of the plan-which incidentally may enable Governor Browning to replace him in the U. S. Senate in 1940. Said he: "I've made mistakes but I do not think I deserve this stab in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Crimp in Crump | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Stab at Suiyuan. Japan's Kwantung Army, recent conquerors of Chahar Province, swung furiously westward last week in efforts to break through into Inner Mongolia and cut off China from Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia whence supplies are streaming to aid Nanking. No correspondent was reported within hundreds of miles of this most vital offensive, watched with cat-like concern by Tokyo, but the Japanese claimed they had broken through Chinese defenses on the frontier of Suiyuan, seized strategic rail junctions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Progress | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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