Word: ax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wisteria Trees has its own strong sense of period and place. And in Louisiana as in Russia, the family will not sell off some of the land they love in order to survive, so that in the end their plantation goes under the hammer, their wisteria vines under the ax...
...truth is that Playwright Logan has infused a touch of Yancy Loper into Chekhov, and what is heard at the end is the sound of the ax hacking the heart out of The Cherry Orchard. Yet the real trouble with The Wisteria Trees is not that it falls short of Chekhov, but that on its own terms it is so frequently blurred and limp...
...schools-the Academy of Christian Education, Patten College and Patten Seminary. Students joined up at the rate of 300 a year, paying $20 a month tuition, slipping on bright school sweaters with big block Ps, and learning the school yells. Sample, adopted from the old "Give 'em the ax": "Give 'em the Word, the Word, the Word." Some paid $5 for the academy's first and only yearbook, The Portal, a tome which explained Brother Tom's role in the world: "After scanning the honor roll of the obedient, the eyes of God rested...
...contrast to TV's boom, radio was tightening its belt. The number of sponsored evening shows was off 37%, compared to four years ago, and many a current big-time program was threatened, by the economy ax...
...years. To the stockholders of U.S. Gypsum, which he also heads, Avery reported that the company had salted away $55 million in cash reserves. Warned Avery: "The thing that hit us in 1929 cannot be assumed not to happen again. Personally, I have been waiting for years for the ax to fall. I am becoming more convinced momentarily that the time is not far away...