Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Calvin, not Luther, who created a theology for Luther's politics, controversial then and now, was his opposition to the bloody Peasants' War of 1525. The insurgents thought they were applying Luther's ideas but he urged rulers to crush the revolt: "Let whoever can, stab, strike, kill." Support of the rulers was vital for the Reformation, but Luther loathed violent rebellion and anarchy in any case...
...when they see it on a staff. But he writes with his usual quirky vigor and never loses sight of the quotidian world in which mystic chords get written: glossing one of his own scores, he recalls such details of its composition as "a particular face on television, a stab of heartburn, the cat licking my toes." Those who persist through the occasional thickets of crotchets and quavers will find in this little book the middle C of Anthony Burgess...
...Crimson squad had its best chance to score with just over two minutes to play in regulation, but Mullen's shot off a penalty corner was stopped just short by an outstanding stab from Andrews...
...victim posture collapsed. This time the prosecution's reconstruction of the murders, based on blood types, a footprint, and threads from the doctor's pajama top, horrified grand jurors. Mac-Donald apparently had bludgeoned Colette and Kimberly and held two-year-old Kristen across his lap to stab her. At his rial delayed almost five years by appeals, he was found guilty of first-and second-degree murder. MacDonald is now serving three consecutive life terms in a Texas federal prison, where he furiously maintains his innocence...
With just 2:21 left in the game and the Friars searching for a score to overcome the Crimson's one-goal lead, the junior defender made a diving stab of a Providence shot that had escaped Harvard goalie Juliet Lamont. With Lamont pulled out of a net, and only an open net in front of Jackie Gladu's shot, O'Neill lunged towards the ball, clearing it at only the last possible moment...