Word: ax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Splitting Hairs. In Spartanburg, S.C., police submitted a report after taking Joe Grier to the hospital: "Lacerated scalp. Ax fell off wall and hit Joe on the head. Joe's ax. Joe's head. No complaints. Investigation complete...
...with food. Outside Manaus. others have turned cleared jungle into lush truck gardens. Amazonas Governor Gilberto Mestrinho says that the Japanese are exactly the kind of settlers the Amazon needs to build the future. "They don't cry for help every time they break an ax handle," he says. "They are not afraid to work...
Hellzapoppin. In Chicago, after a blaze broke out in the lower depths of a restaurant known as Dante's Inferno and roared through its upper floors, ax-bearing firemen got at the flames by chopping their way past a large wooden figure of Satan guarding the entrance...
...life-size statue of England's gallant Sir Walter Raleigh was slated for unveiling in London's Whitehall Park this week. But same day, Britain's National Society of Non-Smokers plans to celebrate the 341st anniversary of Explorer Raleigh's beheading by a royal ax-swinger. Reason: taking a leaf from the pipe of Virginia's Indians, Sir Walter is accused of being the villain who introduced tobacco into England...
...Government last week took an old-fashioned ax to the next generation of U.S. military aircraft in what may well be the start of a new cutback in aircraft and missile programs. The Air Force announced that it was abandoning plans to produce high-energy boron aircraft fuels at Olin Mathieson Corp.'s two-city-block, $45 million plant near Niagara Falls, which was scheduled to deliver its first batch of exotic fuel this month. It also canceled a contract with the General Electric Co. for producing the J-93-5 engine to power North American Aviation...