Word: ax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite familiar with the doctrine of those desk-bound intellectuals who got all mixed up, those gentlemen who would probably describe Al Capone as the product of an unhappy childhood, those gentlemen who saw a boil on China's neck and called in the executioner with his ax, thinking he was a surgeon...
...Senate Finance Committee, after talking it over with Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, regretfully shelved the bill to cut excise taxes. Thirty-five Senators (including five Democrats) backed a 10% cut in all non-defense appropriations, including ECA. Majority Leader Scott Lucas promptly objected to any such "meat-ax...
Swish of the Ax. But the most critical decision was made in 1948, when peace was no longer a sure thing but only an outside possibility. Harry Truman had made that decision in a presidential election year. He had rejected the recommendations of Omar Bradley, his other military chiefs, and his Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, who had set the minimum cost of an adequate military force at $18 billion. Such an expenditure could only be borne by jettisoning some of the promises of Mr. Truman's Fair Deal. The President ordered his budgetmakers to cut the military figure...
...Louis Johnson, Forrestal's successor, finally did, but only after he was prodded into it and then in a not-very-loud-voice (he asked for $350 million more). Up to that point the only sounds from Louis Johnson's office had been the swish of the ax and Louis Johnson's reassuring roars that he was simply cutting off fat, never touching a muscle...
...were part & parcel of Sardinia's prehistoric religion. The natives built their temples encircling wells and pools, filled them with carvings of marble and later with bronzes. One of the earliest and largest works in the show, 17 inches tall, looked like a cross between a double-bladed ax-head and a woman, probably represented the mother goddess whose cult once encompassed the Mediterranean world. Later representations kept the same silhouette but added more human details: a huge head balanced on a towering neck and a cloak spread to resemble wings...