Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then the presidential train began a station-to-station run to Buffalo. Seven thousand people stayed through a violent cloudburst at Auburn, Republican Congressman John Taber's home town. They cheered lustily as Harry Truman berated Taber for using "a butcher knife and a saber and a meat ax . . . on every forward-looking program . . ." There were more crowds at Schenectady, Amsterdam, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Oneida, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Rochester, and Buffalo. And there would be great crowds again this week as the President toured the Middle West. Politicos and columnists seemed puzzled by the phenomenon...
Sick Fledgling. Nevertheless, it took stern measures on President Connelly's part to put Southwest in the black. Like most fledglings, Southwest started out top-heavy with vice presidents, quickly lost money. When Jim Ray, the first boss, quit, Jack Connelly moved in with a meat-ax. He trimmed out most of the top brass, made the survivors double in it. Southwest's only remaining vice president, Operations Chief Ted Mitchell, flies 25 hours a month as a pilot and all pilots refuel their own planes...
...stood sharply against October's bright blue sky. Nights held the first promissory note of frost. New England's sumac was already scarlet; and below the snow-dusted rimrock of the high Rockies, aspen gleamed like brass. Lakes lay dark and still and the sound of an ax or a distant locomotive carried for miles on the tranquil...
Thus, Ana, reliable and ruthless, has come to the fore; there is a new cutting edge on the old party battle-ax. She is quoted much more often and more reverently in the satellite press than other non-Russian Communists. At the Danube conference, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky made a point of turning to her for advice while ignoring the other Red delegates. He takes pains to give her pointers on conference technique. Obviously she is being groomed for a bigger international role...
...Dublin meeting of a dendrologists' organization called Men of the Trees, Lord Dunsany sent a caustic reason. "I never knew an Irishman," he wrote, "having access to a platform who could not make an admirable speech in favor of trees, or any having access to an ax who did not cut down all the trees within his reach...