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Word: knifings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways . . . You can prove anything by it . . . I am speaking of the abuse of psychology, gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Why Psychiatrists Disagree in Court | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...supplies and equipment from the eastern U.S. to South Korea. Aside from the weather delay, there were few untoward hitches in the military exercise. One paratrooper's static line failed to release him, and he dangled behind the aircraft until he could cut himself loose with a knife. The 82nd's commander, Major General John Deane, parachuted smack into the middle of an icy 50-ft.-wide stream. He was hastily fished out and draped in a dry parka before going to meet South Korea's President Chung Hee Park at a reviewing stand near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Longest Jump | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Pushed against the railings of the churchyard and the church walls, the believers, far from objecting, look around nervously for fear of getting a knife in the back, or of having their watches stolen-the watches on which they keep track of the remaining minutes before the Resurrection of Christ. Here, outside the church, they, the Orthodox, are much fewer than the grinning, milling rabble who oppress and terrorize them more than ever did the Tartars. The Tartars, surely, would have let up for Matins on Easter Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Easter Procession | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...with seal blood to cut down ice glare and prevent chapping, grabs a 60-lb. pup by a hind flipper, whacks it on its soft skull, spins the pup over, punctures the throat and then neatly skins away pelt, flippers and blubber with swift strokes of a razor-sharp knife. The process commences at dawn, continues until dark and turns the once pristine ice into an ugly palette of dirtied snow, crimson blood sprays and grotesquely skinned carcasses. Watching this month's carnage TIME Correspondent Dick Duncan concluded: "Somehow in the savagely beautiful surroundings of the ice pack shimmering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Days of the Long Knives | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...challenged Ronald Reagan to a duel and I reiterate that challenge tonight. . . . And I give him his choice of weapons. He can use a gun, a knife, a baseball bat or a marshmallow. And I'll beat him to death with a marshmallow...

Author: By Clyde Lindsay, | Title: The Man | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

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