Word: stabs
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...Case. A Jew, one Leon Beron. was found murdered and robbed on Clapham Common. The letter S was roughly carved on his cheeks. A black-and-red silk handkerchief, a paper bag from Whitechapel, some stab marks evidently made by a tall, strong, left-handed man were the clews. Sleuth Wrensley tracked and arrested Notorious Murderer "Steinie" Morrison...
...MORTAL STAB TO AUSTRIA!! screamed virtually every newspaper in Vienna, except the Reichspost, circumspect Roman Catholic organ of tall, stern, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria...
...Austrians!! I say that this inscription is a mortal stab at Austrian pride! Not we but they are barbarians...
Burnside, McClellan's successor, stupidly massed an attack on Fredericksburg and was decisively beaten. At Chancellorsville, "esteemed among foreign critics the most brilliant action of the century," Lee, outmanoeuvered for once, literally led his men, who worshipped him, to defeat a force twice their size. But his final stab failed when a subordinate erred at Gettysburg...
PORGY?Negroes chant for the dead; shoot craps; go on a picnic; stab; strangle...