Word: ax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publishers and columnists sat back in unsupporting silence, and others have heaped invective on Government spending or, like Publisher John S. Knight (TIME, May 20), even turned the attack into an offensive on Eisenhower foreign policy, Conservative Lawrence, 68, has systematically and unreservedly defended the budget against the meat ax of Congress. Well before the White House itself stirred into belated action to save the budget. Columnist Lawrence was atop the barricade, shouting "Charge...
...with the wrong weapons." Stewart Alsop, also of Lawrence's home paper, the Trib, said: "The betting is still that Congress will do to the popular Eisenhower what it never dared to do to the unpopular Truman-hack away at his whole foreign policy program with a meat ax all along the line." Fair-Dealing Doris Fleeson even started one column: "The President has lost his budget fight." Lawrence, who is still being bombarded with critical mail for his defense of the budget, disagreed. "The tide," he wrote, "is turning. The President is relying on the simple theory that...
Hearing the talk, other speakers, notably Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Kennedy and Vice President Nixon, hurried to the Administration's defense, tried to persuade the Chamber to lay down its budget-chopping ax. Nixon pointed out that 60% of the budget goes for national defense, that unprecedented population growth demands increased social spending, that the budget is balanced...
...painting primer called The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, compiled between 1679 and 1701 in a small Nanking house (called the Mustard Seed Garden), broke down brush strokes into 16 different categories. Beginning painters were expected to be proficient in each of them, ranging from "hemp fibers" and "ax cuts" to "horses' teeth" and "sesame seeds." But such variety, when carried out by artists with genius at their brush tips, produced some of the most sophisticated and delightful art objects ever created. Among the Ming masters who succeeded...
...Gross's father was a lumber merchant, and Chaim began his career, appropriately enough, as a sculptor of wood. Among the first sights Sculptor Gross saw in his native Carpathian Mountains were towering forests of firs and pines; among the first sounds he heard were the bite of ax in tree and the screech of sawmills slicing logs into boards. "Smelling the odor of a pine or some other tree," he says today, "I feel like pressing close to its fragrance...