Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of them shrouded in wartime secrecy. At Bletchley Park, Alan Turing built a succession of vacuum-tube machines called Colossus that made mincemeat of Hitler's Enigma codes. At Harvard, large, clattering electromechanical computers in IBM's Mark series also did wartime calculations. Even the Germans made a stab at computing with Konrad Zuse's Z electromechanical computers, the last of which was the first general-purpose computer controlled by a program...
...film crew. DiCaprio has been an irresistible target of criticism from some media-savvy Thai activists and newspapers (the more artsy protesters performed skits in Leo masks decorated with fangs dripping blood), and the actor complains that he's been unjustly painted as an ecovillain. "It's a stab on my reputation if I'm associated with a film that comes in and recklessly destroys things," he grumbles, looking newly tanned and nearly buff in his trailer before taking a watery plunge...
Cambridge resident Tyrone Henderson, 44, was arraigned Thursday on charges of assault with intent to murder. Henderson is accused of assaulting a Somerville man Wednesday night in front of the Store 24 in the Square. The man, whose name police were unable to release, is still recovering from a stab wound. The man told police that Henderson slashed him in the neck after an argument. Henderson's plea was not available...
...notified that a stab victim had sought treatment at the Cambridge City Hospital. When officers queried the victim, Colbert Warfield, he refused to tell them how he had been stabbed. Later, Warfield's girlfriend told officers that he had stabbed himself in the arm "out of an act of love...
...Vere led, an existence more Shakespearean than Shakespeare's! Of the man from Stratford we have only a sheaf of facts slimmer than a Gospel redacted by atheists. He is a man about whom it is impossible to write the literary biography as we know it today--kiss, tell, stab in the back, keep the codpiece, and don't dry-clean the doublet. And thus De Vere tantalizes. He may not have been the Bard, but--with apologies to whomever--was his life the stuff of which Shakespeare's dreams were made...