Word: ax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reuther wanted much more than that. Regulation W, said he, was a "rich man's racket" which made it impossible for the workingman to buy a car. With no real documentation to back him up, Reuther said that the "meat-ax approach" of Regulation W, plus cutbacks in critical materials, would throw no less than 321,000 auto workers out of work. Reuther had a meat-ax approach of his own: slap immediate controls on everything except wages...
Marr, who advocated one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. From long experience Vishniak sat back to see which way the Marxian doctrinal ax would fall. His vigilance was rewarded by an 8,000-word blockbuster in Pravda from Stalin himself, demolishing the "false" foundations of the Marr theory and setting everybody straight. It also made a story for TIME'S July 3 issue-and another example of the editors' continuing attempt to convey the ways of the Soviet to TIME'S readers...
...attempt ... to insinuate that Republican victory mea°ns a revival of isolationism is an unworthy fraud and deceit." Alexander Wiley announced that the results meant only a "closer supervision" of foreign aid funds. "There need not be fear that Congress will slash foreign aid with a meat ax," he said...
...plays the smug, hand-rubbing headmaster of a boys' school who is thrown for a loss when a mixed-up Ministry of Education dumps a girls' school on the premises. ("Someone," he moans, "is guilty of an appalling sexual aberration.") Headmistress Rutherford is the formidably efficient battle-ax who leads the invasion, tackles one of the problems of boys-&-girls-together by canceling biology classes...
Luther himself was only too conscious of his excesses, and once, when asked why he was so violent, composed a salient epigram on his entire life. "A twig," he said, "can be cut with a bread knife, but an oak calls for an ax...