Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spectator, says Adviser Stegner, "hasn't a single ax to grind.. . . There ought to be a good Western magazine that you don't have to be ashamed to support." At the first year's end, Spectator's founding fathers were unashamed...
...quite a surprise; two weeks ago, Landis said, the President had assured him that he would be reappointed when his term ran out on Dec. 31. Landis credited his enemies among the big airlines with having whetted the Truman ax...
Family Ties. In Peiping, China, 1) Wang Leihsiang had her mother arrested as an opium smoker; 2) her sister accused her brother's wife of adultery; 3) the brother's wife killed the two sisters with an ax, hanged herself, left a note explaining to her husband that she had planned on killing...
...Communist-dominated Poland, defendants in the nearly continuous political trials usually "confess" and "repent" before the ax falls. But last week, from a crude, unpainted witness box in the center of a Warsaw courtroom, a courageous Pole on trial for his life departed from the Moscow purge trial tradition and spoke his unrepentant mind. Poles considered his behavior sensational...
...flurried, waning minutes of the session, the Senate Appropriations Committee repaired some of John Taber's ax-work, boosting interim aid to $570 million, occupation expenses to the original $490 million. When the bill went to conference, the Senate committeemen were adamant on providing something for China. Said one House conferee: "They just sat and looked and waited, and if we hadn't agreed to the China money, we wouldn't have had any Christmas." The weary wrangling ended in the usual compromise: $522 million for France, Italy and Austria, a token $18 million for China...