When the Republican Charles Sumner was struck down by a Southerner on the Senate floor, Raymond’s paper called for armed resistance by pistol, bludgeon, and bowie knife, if necessary.
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Matthew Karp,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
The speaker that February night was Cassius Marcellus Clay, a bold and brawling Kentucky abolitionist, equally skilled with a stump speech and a bowie knife.
The dagger in this come-from-behind win was a nine-play drive that ended with a 14-yard touchdown run by none other than McCarthy, who kept the ball on a third-and-1 read option from the Chicago 14-yard line.
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Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Smith’s 36-yard prayer that converted third-and-20 in the final minutes may have been the dagger Sunday, but his completions of 30, 38 and 28 yards on prior scoring drives pulled Las Vegas into the lead.
Sheen took the boot and swung a machete around on a rooftop to the tune of a million Twitter followers in a day and die-hard fans cheering his meltdown one-man shows.
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Zoe Guy,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
That includes a disturbing attack in a Regal Cinema parking lot in 2022 involving a man who says he was attacked at random by the same suspect who was brandishing a machete.
When the juveniles returned to take a picture of the vehicle’s license plate, Mumme allegedly exited the building and confronted them with a pocketknife, police said.
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Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
Inside his bag was a homemade explosive device, binoculars, a pocketknife and a torch lighter.
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