Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heads Up. In Brooklyn, Joseph Roteno, sprinkling the flowers in his second-floor window box, splashed a few drops on the protruding pate of first-floor neighbor Carmino Peravello, who charged up the stairs and nicked neighbor Roteno with an ax before the cops came...
...Governor, whose own slate won the Republican primary by 5-to-1 majorities, had no ax to grind. The facts were enough. In industrial New Jersey, where even the busiest war worker could find some time to vote during the 13-hour poll day, they straggled into the polls at the rate of six an hour. Nowhere except in Frank Hague's well-regimented Hudson County did the vote exceed 15% of the registration, either Democratic or Republican...
With the landing crack-up almost certain, Bombardier Lieut. Edward M. Gibbens, of Mountain Home, Idaho, took a crash ax, doffed his parachute, perched on the narrow catwalk of the bomb bay and started knocking the bombs loose. As the last one dropped away, Gibbens skidded on the leaking hydraulic fluid and fell. With a frantic, one-handed clutch he caught hold of a bomb rack, slowly and painfully pulled himself back to safety as other crewmen came up to help...
Then Gibbens stared at his other hand. It was still holding the ax...
...problems by taking them away from here." Maria's husband spent most of his time in bed, gloomily waiting for the day when the Lewises would throw him out. "It's all dead wood," snapped crazy Grandma, of her household. "Somebody ought to come along with an ax. . . ." But Catherine believed that two living things remained: Aunt Willy's stallion, and a vigorous neighboring farmer named Tom Manigault. Life began again for her when the stallion won first prize at the State Fair, and the farmer became Catherine's lover (they planned to marry after...