Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people were eating venison. A lot of old poacher's tricks were as good as ever, although discretion was necessary. An overanxious hunter in Puente, Calif, got arrested last week after he chased a buck up the road with his automobile and lopped off its head with an ax...
...diggers probed the relics left by this simple people, they found unsimple things. The La Ventas were remarkable artists, who carved hardest jade into human figurines, ornamented ax heads, beads, earplugs, pendants. They were excellent potters, too. Example: a baked clay whistle in the form of a realistic bird, which gives the cry of the bird it represents...
...Prokosch, V. S. Pritchett, Sean O'Faolain) to write for Tomorrow. She kept her psychic secrets pretty well out of it. People who wanted to know what her aim was got a steady, blue-green stare and a soft answer: "I have no bone to bury, and no ax to grind. But I have a policy: I believe in the humanities, and in common decency...
Smooth-talking Bill Pardridge hopes to see 10,000 subscribers before the year is out, will now take ads (the first issue was adless). Barred from advertising: aviation companies. Reason: to head off any talk that Air Affairs has an ax to grind. But every large airline except TWA helped with early contributions of $100 and up, and seven have agreed to plug the magazine with copies in every plane. Promoter Pardridge is already talking about moving Air Affairs from his fifth-floor walkup flat & office in Washington, D.C. Next month he will ask his hand-picked board of trustees...
...rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the wall. And there wasn't any Democratic party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes and his shirt sticking to his stomach with sweat. And he had a meat ax in his hand and was screaming for blood...