Word: stabs
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...American man has high standards for everything but marriage. As long as his wife doesn't run off with another man, commit suicide, develop acute dementia praecox, or stab him with the carving knife, he considers his marriage reasonably successful. . . [The American woman] is frustrated, unfulfilled, humiliated, and bored by the routine existence that passes for family life in her native land. If Groggle doesn't change, she can only hope to get worse...
Before the government got around to it, television men last week made a stab at drawing up a good-conduct code of their own. The 28-page document, presented at a Chicago meeting of the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters, began by congratulating the industry on making "available to the eyes and ears of the American people the finest programs of information, education, culture and entertainment." Then it came out foursquare against "profanity, obscenity, smut and vulgarity...
Charles's work was rough. He had only a big broadax to work with, and often, when his clients lacked the grace to hold still, his mighty swings resulted in bloody mutilation only. Charles would seize his sword then, and stab with a will until the job was done. In payment he got a fixed fee for each execution and the right to draw on the public markets at will for food for himself, his family and two horses...
...said that, provoked by "improper advances," he had seized the man by the throat and tightened the tie until the man was unconscious. He then tied the ends around his victim's neck and, before leaving, made a stab at the unconscious man's throat with a pair of scissors. He freely admitted his guilt...
...single stab south of Inje...