Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night), but none so fast or so violent. Most spectacular shot: Millard Mitchell burning alive in the remains of his rickety truck. Most surprising scene: the flagrant cruelty of the hero as he unmercifully slugs a flabby villain who doesn't want to fight. After breaking an ax handle on the villain's hand, Conte mauls him from one end of a bar to the other with a series of rabbit punches, each of which sounds like the cracking of a dinosaur's knuckle...
...nation was treated last week to the unique sight of an Administration official really swinging an economy ax. Secretary Louis Johnson announced a cutback in Defense Department jobs which he thought would ultimately save the country $500 million a year...
Since Robert Frost is only 74 and sound as a hickory ax handle, this book is not likely to be his last. It does, however, contain his lifework up to the present, including several poems not printed in book form. And though this is not the sense intended, the title is correct about the poems: almost every one of them is complete as a work of art. Moreover, Frost is a complete poet, one of the few who ever stuck it out as such in a tough country for poets. Frost's reputation has been secure for 35 years...
...same arguments on recalcitrant Democrats. When the revised ERP bill hit the House floor, it sailed through 193 to 27. Half of the cut in funds for occupied areas was also restored. It was a compromise designed to keep everybody happy: the House had had its fun, swinging the ax -and, in the end, ECA was probably not hurt badly, just nicked in the neck...
...stockings. He was not prepared for the reporters and photographers who found him aboard the liner Mauretania, on a trip that is taking him around the world. The newsmen persuaded him to take off his jacket and western shirt, and pose for an hour with the hardwood spear, stone ax and Bible that he had brought with...