Word: stabs
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...silver spokes are forever silenced, and Fascism has thrust its iron fist into the Yard for the first time. The insidious forces of United Shoe Machinery, General Motors, and Standard Oil, hurling the lie at those who said it couldn't happen here, have made a vital stab at the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity...
...Sullivan stuck close to his books, lost no time on athletics, glee clubs, social life. Earning an A. B. in 1900, he stayed on for three years of law, meantime writing special articles for the Boston Transcript to pad out his dwindling $5,500. After a brief and briefless stab at the law in Manhattan, his Transcript record got him a job with Edward Bok for a spirited, 18-month campaign against quack patent medicines in the Ladies' Home Journal. In 1905 came two milestones in Mark Sullivan's life. He went to work for Collier...
...felt the same passion, "Lady Caro," who was also affectionately called "Ariel," "Savage," & "Squirrel," outdid them all. She disguised herself as a page in order to get into Byron's rooms, waited in the street while he attended parties to which she had not been invited, tried to stab herself when he spoke crossly to her, forged his handwriting to get his picture from his publisher. Driven to distraction by her, Byron found companionship with her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne, brilliant, cynical woman of 62, who gave him detailed advice on how to pursue charmers, was not shocked...
...moppet named Tommy (Billy Halop) and his juvenile gang. There is nothing more seriously the matter with Tommy than that he has lice in his hair, which his loyal sister attempts to remove with a can of kerosene. But environment leads him to rob a rich boy, stab the boy's father and start on his way to the reform school and high crime. There, as suddenly as he begins his narrative, Playwright Kingsley stops...
Sometimes a stab wound lets air into a pleural cavity. The air destroys the pleural vacuum which the lung requires and acts as a pneumatic cushion against which the lung can not expand. Such an accident is called pneumothorax...