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Word: ax (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakfast the Borden family ate before Lizzie Borden allegedly took an ax and "gave her parents 40 whacks" [TIME, Jan. 12]: Lizzie gave her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...breakfast the Borden family ate before Lizzie Borden allegedly took an ax and gave her parents 40 whacks: mutton stew or soup, sugar cookies and bananas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: An Obliging Man | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

That was like handing Kit Carson a rifle or Paul Bunyan an ax. Benny mastered the thing-which came down to his knees-and began blowing the stuff of American legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...common sense," and is indignant at what he considers loose charges that crime shows encourage juvenile delinquency: "We used to have maybe two or three murders on a single show, but now there's generally just one. And we don't have anyone killed with an ax or have his throat cut with a butcher knife -they just get shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Only One Murder | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...jerk of the 120-ft. nylon rope brought Dave up short, painfully bruising and wrenching his ribs, and dragged Jim, ax and all, to within a foot of the brink. An hour later, Dave dragged himself back up. He and Jim found a cave in a crevasse and spent the night there. The feet of both were frostbitten, Dave's so badly that when he rapped them with his knuckles "the sound was hollow and wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ordeal in the Sky | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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