Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world seemed to find it a good deal easier to tell the difference between right & wrong than it does today. Stalin built an empire of a kind that Victoria could not have visualized even in her nightmares; he forged Marx's foggy philosophy into an iron knife with which to carve the earth; and he swamped mankind with an organized lie that, in the minds of millions, made white mean black, war mean peace, and good mean evil. There was not a king or a rich man, a shoemaker or a peasant wife who was not touched by Stalin...
...effort at all to produce votes for Boss Hague's candidate, Driscoll managed to pile up a plurality of some 18,000 votes. (The day after the election, Mayor Kenny received a small parcel from Wene's press secretary. Contents: a catsup-stained, seven-inch carving knife and a message: "Dear John: I pulled this out of Wene's back this morning; I thought you might need it for future reference...
...have thought, life among the gods up there on Olympus wasn't always a bowl of nectar. Take the case of Venus, or let Author Erskine take it. Her mother-in-law Juno was a suspicious, embittered shrew. Sister-in-law Minerva, an athletic type, tried to knife her as soon as her back was turned...
...circulars were a pathetic attempt to make the world understand the source of childbed fever before madness destroyed him. When all of them were distributed, he flung himself into the last gesture of his life. Rushing to the dissecting room of Pesth University, he slashed his fingers with a knife, plunged them "into the corrupt and rotting darkness" of a corpse. It was his final demonstration of a great discovery: six days later Ignaz Semmelweis died of childbed fever...
...tried every other kind of cure, including just trying not to think about it. He had warned left-wing leaders to quit acting like Communists or get out. But the trouble still persisted. Party-liners continued to defy him. There was nothing left to do but use the knife...