Word: dagger
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Biggest recorded audience for any program was that attracted by Franklin Roosevelt's "dagger-in-the-back" speech from Charlottesville, Va. It rated 45.5 in the C. A. B. chart...
...only with a large map of Mexico. In its centre was a long wooden table stacked with books and manuscripts. Trotsky sat down there, began to read the manuscript his friend had brought. Jackson leaned over his shoulder. From under his coat, where he had hidden a pistol, a dagger and an Alpine pick, he chose the heaviest instrument. If he succeeded with this, he would make no sound, do his work with one quick blow...
...from the heart. Result: "massive, bursting hemorrhages of every blood vessel [in the chest], a great gush of blood from the mouth." Waddie was sure the bullet had done the damage, but attorneys for the suspect in the case insisted that the victim must have been stabbed with a dagger by someone else. Waddie studied the scene, then rigged up a chain of rubber tubes of graduated widths, to simulate blood vessels. He dropped a bullet in the largest tube, attached the mouth of the tube to a spigot, turned on the water. The bullet pushed along through the smaller...
...found by following directions of the suspects and most of the guns were identified as contraband, smuggled from Brazil after President Getulio Vargas put down an Integralistas (fascist) revolt there in 1938. Complete storm-troop kits were discovered, each containing two revolvers, a supply of hand grenades, a Nazi dagger, a steel helmet, an identification tag and iron rations...
When Mussolini was winding up for his dagger thrust at France last month, the pauses and 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...