Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with Russia last winter, its hero would have been Red-hating Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. As a loser its hero was stocky President Kyösti Kallio, who was so modest that he shunned interviews, who clicked his heels and bowed low before reporters, who wore a knife in his belt as most Finns do, and who, the war over, turned resolutely to the task of rebuilding his country...
...without formal drafting. At 29 reception centres rookies were shucked out of mufti, inoculated, vaccinated, shod and asked such questions as: "How many nickel cigars can you buy for 20??'' "How many dozen will 42 oranges make?", asked to say whether a pistol was a gun, a knife, a sword or a pencil...
Last week Rufo Romero made one of the most unusual protestations of innocence in legal history, one of the strangest of the Orient's many historic face-saving gestures. He offered to undergo any kind of brain surgery that would knife out of his head any recollection of military matters. He wanted to save his face even if it meant losing his memory...
...form a secondary defense line. Another Greek pursuit column harried the Italian retreat toward Moskopole ("Perfumed City"). Greek and British warplanes bombed and machine-gunned long columns of dejected Blackshirts and Alpini, whose welfare was further menaced by mutinous Albanian battalions in their very midst, by Albanian snipers, knife-men, rock-rollers and bridge-blasters in the gorges and ravines along...
...Century, the great physician Rhazes attended an emir who was so badly crippled that he could not walk. First Rhazes ordered the emir's best horse to be saddled and brought into the court yard. Rhazes gave the emir hot showers and a stiff drink. Then, brandishing a knife, he cursed his patient, threatened to kill him. Furious, the crippled man sprang to his feet. With his patient hot on his trail, the doctor leaped on the horse and escaped. From a safe distance, he sent an explanation: the patient's fiery temper had dissolved the already softened...