Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interne told me that he was dismissed for writing descriptions of beaten patients on the hospital charts. There were 15 serious Jewish cases in his own ward. Jews beaten until injured for life, one nearly blind, one who had to be sent to an insane asylum, one with many stab wounds in his arm, another shot through the leg many times...
After dinner in Daytona, he felt a sudden stab of pain in his abdomen, thought it was indigestion. He took some soda, paced about the hotel corridors with his wife. Later that night a doctor found the Senator's blood pressure was 182, with symptoms of angina pectoris. Advised to stay over and go to bed, Mr. Walsh replied that he had to get on to Washington for the inaugural. Next day he and his wife started north in a drawing room on Atlantic Coast Line's train...
...stage. As if to atone for lack of convincing atmosphere, those responsible for Girls in Uniform have made the entente between Manuela and the teacher unwholesomely explicit-a doubtful benefit. And to cap that, Manuela of the play actually manages to destroy herself instead of making an abortive stab at it. Point of the cinema was that the frustrated little girl did not escape from the school, an institution not intended to be merely the scene of juvenile tantrums but something far more organic, the inflexibility of life itself...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, thought beer legislation would be "a stab in the back for every other legitimate industry." Asked how he, if a Congressman, would balance his conscience against his constituents, he replied: "I'm not a balanced or reasoning man. I'm a fanatic. My conscience would never permit me to vote contrary to my convictions...
...September Pavel and little Fedor went into the woods. A group of villagers, boys and men with long knives hanging from their belts, found them there. While the terrified children clung to each other, somebody made the first stab. The savage villagers cut their bodies to pieces, buried them under the pines...