Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Propagandist Goebbels' words had long since failed. When heads fall, it will not be Goebbels who cuts them off. Until his own head falls, it will be Heinrich Himmler who swings the ax...
...things she does in the course of growing into her marriage. For an hour or so, Claudia wags elbows, knees and tongue in a subadolescent manner that would send any husband less tenderly crucified than Robert Young on a screaming sprint for a psychiatrist, a desert island, or an ax. She suggests that her husband, if he is more man than mouse, will simply refuse to pay his income tax. She sells his beloved house to a high-pitched Russian soprano (oldtime Cinemantrap Olga Baclanova in a miscast comeback). Whenever her husband's long suffering slips a notch, Claudia...
Rickey did not choose to be buried. When the team started slipping, he got out the ax. Down it came on seasoned Dolph Camilli, Buck Newsom, Joe Medwick, Johnny Allen. When he was through pruning, only 14 of the 34 spring players remained. With few exceptions, other clubs could find no new material worth buying. In St. Paul, Rickey found 6 ft. 6½ in. First Baseman Howard Schultz; in Montreal, Outfielder Luis Olmo; in Durham, Outfielder Gene Hermanski. He brought in other youngsters. He asked 20,000 school and semi-pro coaches to name their best players...
...since April 2, 1941... During his first month he spent much of his time breaking up an abandoned macadam road down in Ft. Eustis, Va... "I don't know what the army did with the pieces of that road," he smiles, "but I learned how to swing a pick-ax...
...Most of it rubbed the social nerves raw - provocative speeches by liberals to Tories; provocative shows by the amateur theater; acrobatic dancing; folk singing. One day her husband came home from the National City Bank and said, "It's Charlie Mitchell. ... I got the ax along with 33 others. We got two hours to clear out." He sat with his head in his hands. Louise's insistent bravery in the face of trouble jarred him. " 'If I died,' he said, 'you'd just regard it as another way to develop your character.' That...