Word: ax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy eliminated six other Senators who opposed him. A man who can defeat seven U.S. Senators is a power, and thus McCarthy's aura of invincibility began. By the end of 1951, the myth of McCarthy's power had reached the point where even journalists with no ax to grind had to cover McCarthy closely and seriously...
...Seuss (real name: Theodor Seuss Geisel) admits he had an ax to grind in 5,000 Fingers: as a child, he took piano lessons "from a man who rapped my knuckles with a pencil whenever I made a mistake ... I made up my mind I would finally get even with that man. It took me 43 years to catch up with him. He became the Terwilliker of the movie...
...walked out the door. Last week, after a few days of brooding, he roused himself to go job-hunting, but after one halfhearted attempt, he began drinking instead. One Little Room. Early in the afternoon he went back to his four-room flat, picked up a carpenter's ax, walked into the bedroom and killed his wife (with a single stroke from behind). He turned on four-year-old Michael, left him dead and horribly mutilated. He left quietly and went to his brother Alphonse's house, penned his mother and two small nephews into one little room...
Cure. In Manchester, England, Steel-worker Edward Eckersley, who hit his 61-year-old mother on the head with an ax, was only put on probation after a detective told the court: "She suffers from high blood pressure and he genuinely believed the old wives' story that a blow on the head would relieve...
Death in the Night. For three hours the orgy lasted, and by the time help arrived, more than 300 were dead. Mothers were forced to watch as their children were decapitated by repeated blows of an ax. One woman saw the murderers slash her son's throat and drink his blood as he died. Among the charred remains, left for vulture and stork, police found bones so horribly mutilated that it was often impossible to tell which belonged to animals and which to men. All that was left of Chief Luka was his feet...