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Word: knifings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sipping an all white ice cream soda in a campus snack bar, Mike the Knife (as the press had begun to call him) said his elbows were clean; too bad about Bates, but he just couldn't stop. U.S.C.'s Coach Don Clark backed up his man, said that McKeever had performed "no misconduct," had played a "clean but aggressive game." After all, the officials on the spot had not penalized U.S.C. on the questioned play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Too Rough for Football | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). As one of the new private eyes, Johnny Staccato (Actor John Cassavetes) spends 30 seconds at the piano, 30 minutes stalking Dean Stockwell, who plays a bartender suspected of hunting his free lunch with a pocket knife on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...Revolution, I will be there"). It is difficult to think of a western parallel for this collective identification, unless it would be the unplanned social cast of the "teenager", given group status by popular song, and whose wayward extremes think they are fulfilling a public image "Get your knife, Freddy...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Vienna Festival Chants 'Peace, Friendship' | 10/14/1959 | See Source »

Died. Walter F. Munford, 59, president of U.S. Steel Corp., who worked (1919) at nights as a die reamer for a subsidiary of U.S. Steel in Worcester, rose to be president of American Steel and Wire Division (1953), executive vice president (1958); of a stroke following a knife wound, said to be accidental, at his summer cottage on Cape Cod; in Hyannis, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Universal-International) is a semiprecious British attempt to admix a sociological problem drama with a flat-out murder mystery. The jewel of the title is a beautiful, auburn-haired girl; as the film begins, she is found lying face up on the hard ground of Hampstead Heath with six knife wounds around her heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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