Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied peoples had learned patience and caution, learned that victory could be long in coming. But last week even the most cautious could agree that victory had been brought a long step nearer. It was a week in which the Axis armor cracked wide open, and the Allied ax bit deep into muscle and bone...
...said sadly that there was nothing he could do. Revolters gloried in their nom de guerre: the "Tobacco Road Gang." They feigned sickness, passively resisted all orders. Told to cut down a tree, a Tobacco Roader would ask, "How do I do it?" Told to take hold of the ax, he would ask, "What do I do next?" Told to swing the ax, he would swing, cut out a small chip, inquire. "Now what...
...particularly zestful moment came in 1939 when he got so mad at the din from a sewer-construction job near his house that he wrecked a WPA drill with an ax, yelling to the workmen: "I say to you, this damned rat-a-tat-tat day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, must stop!" He was fined...
...weeks the rumors had raced through Washington: Jesse Jones was going to get the ax. Last week...
Then Presiding Judge Ronald Freisler pronounced sentence: "Mrs. Klara Z is sentenced to die by the ax for her defeatist attitude and for having insulted the Führer, the German people and the German state...