Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even as the House brandished the ax, a highbrowed, heavy-jowled Congressman from South Dakota was rushing to avert it. To those who best remembered him as a vociferous pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist, Karl Mundt seemed a strange rescuer. In 1939 he had suggested tartly that Americans spend more time "minding our own business instead of . . . meddling in the governments of Europe...
House Republicans sternly laid about them with their economy ax. Last week they worked over Harry Truman's budget for the State, Commerce and Justice Departments. Only one neck was spared-J. Edgar Hoover...
...Senate, too, had time to swing the economy ax. The Administration had requested an appropriation of $1,779 million for the Labor Department and the Federal Security Agency. The House had already knocked off $95 million. The Senate lopped off another $8 million...
...made it plain that Jed had always rubbed him the wrong way. As a Congressman Jed Johnson, he said, was always asking for petty favors. To make sure they were granted he frequently threatened to swing an economy ax on Ickes' Interior Department. Ickes had finally decided that there was only one way out-to boot Jed upstairs as hard as he could. That was why he had got Franklin Roosevelt to offer Jed the judgeship...
Endearment. In Lexington, Ky., a wife who wanted a divorce because her husband called her a battle-ax was rebuked by the judge. Said he: "Anyone . . . who is married . . . knows that battle-ax is merely a term of affection...