Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assistant Superintendent W. S. Neil knocked & knocked at the Scott door. He got no answer. Breaking in, he stumbled over an assortment of bloody articles: an ax, a hammer, two butcher knives, a shotgun barrel-and James Scales's discarded clothes. The bodies of Superintendent Scott's dying wife and dead 19-year-old daughter lay on the floor...
...magnitude of the assault on Mrs. Luce by New Deal press and speakers was in ratio to the size of her attack on the New Deal. From Harold Ickes, whom she dismissed as "that prodigious bureaucrat with the soul of a meat ax and the mind of a commissar," all the way up to the President, she spared no New Dealer. No other Republican orator except Candidates Dewey and Bricker hit the President so hard, so often and before such large crowds. None spoke so sharply...
After the meeting the General sets out in his jeep to visit his corps commanders, to detail plans, to check on battle performance. The commanders know that the General is no martinet, but they also know that he can be ruthless in putting the ax to any command if it fails to meet his combat standards (Hodges has sacked several generals and colonels, some of them his close friends...
Fort Driant, south of Metz on the Moselle River, is three-quarters of a mile long by half a mile wide. Built as a defense against German invasion, it is shaped like a double-bit ax, with the cutting edges turned north & south. A barbed-wire-filled moat surrounds its dugouts, gun emplacements, pillboxes, underground tunnels, steel doors, sunken supply roads and guns that move up & down on elevators...
...tough-minded Mary Beard brought labor into scholarly history (A Short History of the American Labor Movement) at a time (1920) when the subject belonged almost exclusively to pamphleteers. She wrote of women {Woman's Work in Municipalities, America Through Women's Eyes, etc.) without feminist ax grinding. Over the years kindly, ruddy-cheeked Charles Beard achieved the stature of a national institution. To hundreds of young pro fessional historians, he became a hero and a prophet, the acknowledged leader of a reformist school which attacked the abstractions of conservatism by an economic reinterpretation of U.S. history...