Word: ax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading a United Press story that described an ax-wielding husband killer as an "attractive mother of three," News Editor Jim Fox of the Jamestown (N.Y.) Sun (circ. 11,444) checked the U.P.'s picture of the woman. "She looks," Editor Fox protested to the U.P. Reporter last week, "like five miles of bad road." Farther down the road, Jim Fox reported that he then compared other wire-service descriptions of women with their pictures and "finally worked out U.P.'s 'system.' " Fox's U.P. glamour glossary...
...really killed it? Majority Leader John McCormack took pains to point out that 57% of the Democrats had backed the measure. Republicans said the ax came from Howard Smith and Southern Democrats. The White House professed "great disappointment that the House did not see its way clear to pass a measure to meet this critical shortage of schools." The only one who said nothing was Marion Folsom. He, apparently, had said too much before the voting began...
...England's Bishop of London (and future Archbishop of Canterbury), Charles said: "I am going from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown, where no disturbance can be." And to his executioner: "I shall say but a short prayer and, when I hold out my hands thus, strike." The ax flashed and Cromwell's will was done-but so anxious was he to make sure, that he later went to the coffin and searched the wound with his fingers...
...hardheaded John Hollister saw of foreign aid the more he appreciated its hard-bitten value, and the less he attempted to cut down functions he once thought he might eliminate. This year he tried hard to make the case for a long-term foreign-aid program before a meat-ax-minded Congress, and, with a sizable assist from the President, won impressive support for his case (although Congress has yet to vote the requested $3.8 billion appropriation...
...budget ax that hangs over every U.S. planemaker fell with swift and painful force. In the first big cutback of the current economy drive, the Air Force last week issued a curt announcement that North American Aviation's rocket-and-ram-jet Navaho intercontinental guided missile was being washed out of the U.S. defense program. Down the drain went a project that has taken eleven years and between $500 million and $700 million to bring the Navaho within a few weeks of full-scale test flight. With it went the promise of another $1 billion in contracts for North...