Word: stabber
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...romance has largely disappeared from the road. Gone are the days of the fraternity, when messages from Dick the Stabber, Wingey Ed and Denver Flip might be found scribbled on every railroad water tank. The decline of the railroad, the rise of the mechanized farm, and the welfare state have just about finished off the career hobo as a mass phenomenon. But he still flourishes in the national mythology. And his descendants live, says Allsop, in the hippies "on the lam from the daily grind," in the restless American who prizes and praises his ultimate freedom of choice, "the right...
...greatest gusto, keeps crying Check! with particular relish, and in the course of the evening makes almost every known move on the board. Now the opportunist wheedles, now the demagogue roars; now a responsible leader advises, now a deft misleader distorts. The nose puncher swaggers forward, the back stabber lies in wait; the party hack mumbles Yes, sir; the man above party shouts Never! In the play's high-stake memory test, wherein the nominee's years-ago Communist flirtation is set against his chief assailant's years-ago sexual misstep, the one man would kill anyone...
Fictional characters like Poe's stealthy stabber have given many a whodunit fan the notion that an insane murderer is "fiendishly clever" in planning and executing his crimes. Poppycock, say two psychiatric authorities in a recent issue of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology...
...English psychological thriller, Murder Without Crime shows the stabber hardly able to hide the body of his victim before his ferret of a landlord pokes his head in the door and his nose into everything...
After learning sentry-stalking in the Indian fashion, home-defense volunteers attending the school were taught to use a knife as the principal weapon of silent combat. Although throat-cutting was demonstrated and practiced on dummies, back-stabbing was recommended because it usually involves less noise, and a proficient stabber should be able to account for several sentries in short order. Garroting with fine piano wire was supervised by an instructor with experience in Northern India...