Word: ax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time he wasn't climbing simply because it was there. Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, 47, thought the kids might like a breath of thin air over the holidays. In Nepal to work on a hospital for his old climbing companions, the Sherpas, Sir Edmund packed his ice ax and took his wife, Louise, and their three children, aged seven to eleven, on a trek to the 18,000-ft. base camp from which, in 1953, he became the first man to climb Mount Everest...
...Jackie spelled out her objections, Goodwin and Editor Attwood met in Bobby Kennedy's 14th-floor apartment at United Nations Plaza to see what could be done. "What Jackie wanted," said one publishing executive, "was simply to chop the twelve points out. She wanted to use a meat ax. Instead, Goodwin agreed that a scalpel could be used...
...Dartmoor prison. As his colleagues stood by with mouths agape, Jones heard the news that his toughest criminal, the so-called "mad axman of Broadmoor," was at that very moment legging it for freedom. Frank Mitchell, 37, a jail bully who once attacked an elderly couple with an ax, had simply walked away from a work party, darted across the moor and disappeared into...
...contender wins an absolute majority, according to the constitution, it is up to the state legislature to award the governorship to one of the two top candidates. There was little doubt that the Democratic majority of legislators would pick Lester Maddox, the onetime restaurateur who in 1964 dispensed ax handles to whites rather than serve chicken legs to Negroes...
...tradition of Soprano Giulia Grisi, who, whenever she had to fall onstage, always landed near a trap door so that a stagehand could sneak her a glass of beer. In the Metropolitan Opera's current production of Electra, Birgit Nilsson's search for Agamemnon's ax is really a quest for a ginger ale stashed under a rock...