Word: stilettoed
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...urban population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth, for Vienna is the archetype of the great city which breeds such a population. . . . Luccheni said with his stiletto to the symbol of power, 'Hey, what are you going to do with me?' He made no suggestions. ... It was the essence of his case against society that it had left him unfit to offer suggestions...
Encouraged by the way Britain's tough sea dogs were chasing Italy's new warships to cover, Greece timorously voiced defiance, but with a stiletto prodding her left side and Nazi gunmen aiming at her head, her shouts sounded like a terrified squeak...
...flourishes were not merely for effect. They were partly stalls for time: time for his purchasing agents in the U. S. to move as much as possible of the 250,000 tons of scrap iron and steel they had just bought (TIME, June 10). By the time the stiletto fell, all but 60,000 tons of this order had been shipped...
...stories were the smoothest smearing jobs done since the Brain Trust worked on Paul McNutt (TIME, March 25), the most thorough on any Republican since sly old Charley Michelson took his stiletto out of Herbert Hoover's back...
...Party, Ontario's Premier politician, who has something of the late Huey Long's capacity for raising political hell. Mitchell Hepburn rammed through the Ontario Legislature a resolution condemning the Ottawa Government for inefficiency in conducting the war (TIME, Jan. 29). With this Liberal stiletto still quivering between his broad shoulders, Prime Minister King prepared to face the verbal scalpels of Conservative Surgeon Manion...