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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Cody, he had had no intention of killing Barbara Finch. When Cody failed to act, the prosecution contended. Finch and Carole decided to do the job themselves. They assembled the "murder kit" in an attaché case: rope, carving knife, drugs, surgical gloves, .38-cal. shells, hypodermic syringes and needles. The plan, declared Prosecutor Whichello: ambush Barbara, knock her out with Seconal, inject a fatal air bubble into her bloodstream, and then put her behind the wheel of her car and push it off the cliff. Late one night last July, testified the housemaid, she heard screams near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Doctor's Dilemma | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

What Big Teeth! In Rome, when police took his illegally long knife from him, Auto-Theft Suspect Rodolfo Pasquarelli explained: "It's a present for my old grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 8, 1960 | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...nicknames began with Supermac, coined by Cartoonist Vicky. Macmillan has since become known in times of budget cutting as Mac the Knife, during the trouble in Cyprus as Macblunder, and during a highway fuss as Macadam. For the great fur cap he wore to Moscow and odd gear he favors on other occasions, he also became Macmilliner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Sightseer | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...Italian girl with the Spanish name of Veronica. But between bedroom and seaside trysts, Jack runs through flashbacks of Wife No. 1, a no-talent Greenwich Village actress, and Wife No. 2, an all-talents Hollywood star and nymphomaniac. When Veronica's boy friend shows up with a knife, Shaw stirs up enough plot to feed parts to an army of extras, expertly guides readers through a movie-colonist's Rome, febrile with sex and chicanery. He sauces his book with piquant if dubious notions, e.g., that the Sistine Chapel proves that Michelangelo's only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Middle of the Journey | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...where 18-year-old Charlotte, blooming in her Yves St. Laurent (white strapless) exclusive, waited with her parents, her Sister Anne, 16, and her kid Brother Edsel. 11. "Daddy," nagged Edsel, "Will they play When the Saints go Marching In?" Henry Ford II hardly cared, kept calling "Mack the Knife" to nobody in particular, and laughed heartily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIETY: Minuet in 250 Gs | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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