Alberto uses a small, pointed knife to methodically carve an elaborate sunflower design.

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The Old Bailey was told how she pinned Miss Clark to the ground and pointed the knife at her chest.

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As my colleague Janet Novack has pointed out, neither side is yet willing pull out the knife, though some benefit changes are likely down the road.

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In 1669, in a bid to cut down on violence, King Louis XIV of France decreed all pointed knives on the street or the dinner table illegal, and ordered all knife points ground down.

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