Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Vandenberg did not question the right of appropriations committees to weigh and to cut individual figures. But he scathingly denounced the House's "meat-ax technique" in arbitrarily stretching appropriations over 15 instead of twelve months...
...Brazil, its land is best for wheat, and wheat is what Brazil needs. Last year the country spent $135 million on imports. Much of the chapada is forested, but the pioneers are hard at work, burning off the underbrush and rooting out stumps. When a flame sears or an ax slips, friends will give the injured what fumbling first aid they can. If that is not enough, the patient is packed into a truck or jeep, jolted and jounced over miles of cattle trails to the Goiaz Evangelical Hospital...
...looked up at a one-eyed giant who slashed at the air with great fists, roared like the Bull of Bashan: "Only by one big union of the working class and mass action can we hope for the final victory ... I would smash the ballot box with an ax...
...stage, and pithy summings-up-generalizations like a bold sweeping together of muscular arms. In telling how Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop had been entertained at No. 10 Downing Street the day Austria was invaded by the Nazis, Churchill's finis to the episode is like an ax-stroke: "This was the last time I saw Herr von Ribbentrop before he was hanged...
Lizzie Borden took an ax...