Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motor which could shoot it back into the pile when instruments warned that neutrons were getting too thick. Another (called "Zip") was attached to a heavy weight by a rope running over a pulley. When in the "withdrawn" position, it was tethered by another rope; a man with an ax stood ready to cut it free, send it zipping into the pile if anything went wrong. The last rod, marked in feet and inches, was to be worked by hand...
...cigaret. ... He was walking between two of my men, tied to the rope. Suddenly beneath his feet the snow and ice had vanished, a deep crevasse was open. We got him up, just like that, in a moment. I was surprised to see that he still had my ice ax firmly in his hand. ... It is rare that a greenhorn has such presence of mind. I'm tired like...
Fenced Out. The fourscore casualties of Field's big shake-up got double severance pay. But the left-wingers among them raised an anguished outcry: lean, thick-lensed Executive Editor Eli Zachary Dimitman, they complained, had eased them out and kept conservatives on. Actually the ax had fallen right & left. In the Sun's foreign staff of seven, only Frederick Kuh (London), Alexander Kendrick (Paris) and Virginia Prewett (Latin America) had survived. In Washington, byliners like careful, competent Carroll Kilpatrick, who covered Congress, and Labor Specialist James Free were...
...went home to his small Ukrainian town after four years in the Army found his house destroyed and his family scattered. After reassembling the remnants of his family, he asked the town authorities for a house. They gave him a slip of paper entitling him to buy an ax and showed him on a map a 100-square-yard plot in a forest near the town. "Make yourself a house," they said. The officer went back to Berlin...
Most cooking methods-baking, boiling, frying-date from stone-ax days. They all heat food from the outside in. The Raytheon Co., prolific spawner of radar tubes, has shown short-order cooks something new; a "range" which cooks food from the inside...