Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters-to-the-editor are generally either bad-tempered, ax-grinding or solemn-crotchety. A refreshingly unclassifiable exception to this rule was recently printed in the London Daily Mail. Said the Letter Writer "John Adam...
...among Finnish politicos and businessmen, Scott found a single-minded determination to fight to the last Finn. "Their attitude towards the Russians is summed up in an old Finnish 'magic song': Just this much they will get from me: what an ax gets from a stone, a stump from slippery ice, or death from an empty room...
West Virginia Congressmen might well tremble at their plans. They intend, for instance, to broadcast not only how the West Virginia delegation splits on controversial bills, but also an intimate, behind-the-scenes analysis of the reasons involved. Says Chernoff: "We have absolutely no ax to grind. We only want to ... review the activities of prominent West Virginians in national service...
...possibility. When the injunction was denied, the industry filed an appeal. The problem was still in the courts when the voluntary price reductions began last week. No one could guess exactly whether the industry's sudden price cut was a jump out of the way of a falling ax...
...idea that he has lost any of his piston drive. The Detroit Free Press came out flatly: Sorensen was fired "while he was fishing in the Bahamas out of reach of the telephone." It then went on to say that spry old Henry Ford himself had swung the ax. This was as shocking to some motormen as if the wizard of Dearborn had slashed off his own right...