Word: ax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman before him, Dwight Eisenhower met with stony stares when he urged Congress to give him the chance for an "item veto," enabling him to slice an objectionable section out of a bill without killing the whole bill with the veto ax. But last week Ike got rid of an obnoxious provision in a bill by what amounted to an item veto. Oldtimers in Congress said they could not recall anything quite like...
Instinct Alone. It was not over. The weather, good for twelve days, burst with a snowstorm. All landmarks disappeared; at one point they were near panic at the thought of starvation when someone spotted the blade of an ice ax that Jake had whimsically stuck beside a food cache, a needle point of steel gleaming in an ocean of snow. On instinct alone, Buckingham found the snow corridor that threaded through a region splintered by crevasses. And finally back down to 7,000 ft., they were plucked from McKinley's flank by their pilot...
...life on the sea. They ignore the traditional rules of courtesy (always ask permission to come aboard, never wear leather soles on a deck, never touch polished brass), insist on such levity as cocktail flags-or worse, flags that show a ball and chain (wife aboard), or a battle ax (mother-in-law aboard). They will foul the fine, salty lines of nautical language with mere jibberish, cool their beer with CO fire extinguishers, are blissfully ignorant of the well-founded Rules of the Road...
...Girls in 509. An intermittently amusing situation comedy in which Peggy Wood plays a violently Republican battle-ax, while Imogene Coca provides some wonderfully wacky kindling. In CHICAGO...
...Girls in 509. An intermittently amusing situation comedy in which Peggy Wood plays a violently Republican battle-ax, while Imogene Coca provides some wonderfully wacky kindling. In DETROIT...