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Word: knifings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally authorized the Tenn-Tom project in 1946, and after 2½ decades more of planning and preparation, construction began in 1972. Today the project is still only one-quarter complete, leaving a deep gash in the countryside that looks as if it had been capriciously made by the knife of some vengeful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dreaming of the Golden Gulf | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...Hackett did was knife his way to a school record of 1:38.45 in the 200 freestyle, then come back--after a minute or two of rest as the 50-yd. freestyle was held--to capture first in the 200-yd. Individual Medley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Mermen Sink Dartmouth, 78-35 | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...Chicago Black Hawks led New York three games to two and needed only one more victory to send themselves to the finals against rookie sensation Ken Dryden and the Montreal Canadiens and to dash Ranger hopes for their first Cup since 1940; the tension was so thick that a knife would not have done the trick. Chicago was up, 2-1, but with a few minutes to go Vic Hadfield poked in a loose puck to put the game into sudden-death...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Getting Psyched | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

...President Bok announces the dismissals of football coach Joe Restic and chief labor negotiator Edward W. Powers, and their replacement by former Ohio State coach Wayne Woodrow "Woody the Knife" Hayes, "We firmly believe that Coach Hayes has all the qualities needed to shape up our two problem areas, which for years have been football and labor relations," Bok says. "And he's got a great right hook," the pugilistically-minded prexie adds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Problems Here | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...wished to leave with him. Lane and Jones' longtime attorney, Charles Garry, sat in on the negotiations in a room inside the pavilion. Suddenly a cultist later identified as Don Sly ran up to Ryan from behind, grabbed him around his throat with one arm and brandished a knife with the other. "I'm going to kill you!" Sly shouted. Lane and Garry wrestled the knife away from Sly, accidentally cutting the assailant. The blood spattered Ryan's clothes. Jones watched impassively. He made no move to interfere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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