Word: ax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 9, 1953, Mrs. Clarice Covert, an American citizen who had accompanied her U.S. Air Force husband on his assignment to Britain, told a psychiatrist that she was "just going to explode." Next day she exploded: she hacked Master Sergeant Edward Covert to death with an ax as he lay sleeping in their Heyfort home...
Only on one big segment of government spending did the Chancellor's ax fall heavily. While the Labor benches resounded to cries of "Resign! Resign!", he slashed housing subsidies, except for slum clearances, and shelved the government's plans to build new offices for the British embassy in Washington (saving...
...Impresario Arthur Godfrey swung the ax at his "family" again. The decapitated: Co-Producer Larry Puck (whose bride, Soprano Marion Marlowe, was fired last spring), Conductor Jerry Bresler, Announcer George Bryan (a ten-year employee), Singer Lu Ann Simms (about to return from maternity leave). At the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg, Equestrian Godfrey rasped: "If I can't hire and fire people to suit myself, I'm going to quit...
This kind of stone (a rhyolite) is found mainly, in one place in Britain: the east end of the Prescelly Mountains in the south of Wales. The stone may have been sacred because it makes fine axes, and the Beaker People had a cult that centered around the ax At any rate, says Atkinson, they must have dragged and floated those 82 tones, weighing up to seven tons, all the way from Wales (about 200 miles). Wessex Aristocrats. Stonehenge II lasted for some 150 years. Then a third people moved in to take over the ancient shrine. They decided that...
...wondered what changes would come in the paper without the Colonel's commanding, eccentric personality to steer it. Would the Trib, for example, drop some of his pet projects and peeves? Last week, amidst a number of almost imperceptible changes, the Trib stepped right out and put the ax to one of the Colonel's fondest innovations...