Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo's Harajuku district, but no one answered their knocking. They peeked inside. There, in a blood-soaked pile of quilts and blankets, lay Nizaemon, his wife, his baby, an old housemaid, and an 11-year-old servant girl. Tossed into Nizaemon's garden was an ax, sticky with gore...
...calmly reading a newspaper account of the murder in an out-of-the-way country inn. Sure, he admitted, he did the job: Nizaemon had refused to let him use his sister's 15,000-yen inheritance. It had taken him, he said, only one stroke of the ax to kill Nizaemon, but rather more to cut off his wife's head. He never had liked her; she had refused to give him more than his regular ration for supper...
...going to Y.F.C. rallies every week and he decided to get in on the selling end. I've never gotten a dime from him and we've never met. . . . We don't want anything to do with [Gerald L. K. Smith] or anyone with a political ax to grind. Y.F.C. is a 100% religious movement...
...longer any patriotic motive for showing documentaries in theaters. The nontheatrical market-some 35,000 projectors in schools, parish houses, union halls, etc.-is still uncertain. Commercial producers hesitate to risk much in a risky medium. Documentary films run the danger of being controlled by sponsors with an ax to grind and little concern for what interests people. (Likeliest sponsors: the Government, private industry, unions, educational institutions.) Too few documentaries have straight theatrical vitality; and too few of those which do have it are exhibited widely enough to develop a reliable mass audience. Peace has left high & dry a greatly...
...Boeing's Seattle and Renton, Wash, plants lifted their heads at the sudden blare of loudspeakers. In short, crisp sentences, the bad news came. The U.S. Army, which had planned to cut back Boeing's B-29 production gradually, had suddenly decided to swing the big ax. Instead of 122 B-29s this month, it wanted only 50; instead of 20 next month, it wanted only...