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Word: ax (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agriculture Minister James Gardiner is the Prime Minister's hatchetman whose tongue cuts like an ax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ottawa's Cross | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...knew the soldiers wanted-was not easy. When Hey, Mac opened, there was a terrible to-do over its rough lyrics and rougher jokes. But Evans, arguing that Hey, Mac was for soldiers only, and that soldiers are not young ladies, carried the day. One skit that got the ax had been laid in the reception room of a brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: As Broad As It's Long | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...ways of a little Newfoundland town. Half an hour after she slipped into the smooth bay she was outward bound, hitched to a tugboat, for a short haul to her outfitting port. The four men aboard her had food for two days, a small stove, a teakettle, an ax, lamp, nails and some rope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Newfies' Ride | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...last July when Segura batted his way through the strong Czecho-Slovakian, Ladislav Hecht. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. An urchin-like figure with a pigeon-toed slouch and a dark Indian face, Segura addresses a forehand shot as if he were about to kill it with an ax, often whirls so far off the ground that he seems to be swung by his racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Golden Age | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...Cossack took up his ax and called his 13-year-old grandson from a neighboring house: "Come here, grandson, and let us cut down the orchard and smash the beehives." Apple, pear and apricot trees laden with still unripe fruit fell one after another. "Pile it up in the street," the old man said. "Let anybody who wants take it, and what is left the armored tractors will crush to pulp when they come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: COME, GRANDSON, LET US CUT DOWN THE ORCHARD. | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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