Word: ax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Observing the accelerating pace of state and local government spending-up 125% in the past decade and now about equal to federal spending, excluding outlays for such items as pensions and interest payments-the President's economists saw a ready target for the economy ax. They argued that many state and local expenditures were not essential and could be deferred until the economy was under less inflationary pressure. But what looks deferrable to Washington bureaucrats looks ten years too late to officials of cities and states that have felt the full force of the postwar population expansion. Though...
...heavy favorite against Lester Maddox, a strident racist who first made headlines by refusing to integrate his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Maddox became a hero to the racists at that time by giving white customers at his fried-chicken restaurant ax handles-he called them "Pickrick drumsticks"-to keep Negroes out. Georgia Republicans, figuring that he would be an easier target than Arnall for G.O.P. Candidate Howard ("Bo") Callaway in November, drove up to polling booths by the thousands to vote for Mad dox-many in cars bearing Callaway bumper stickers...
...first morning of the fall term, a cluster of whites armed with ax handles, lead pipes and chains pounced on the 150 Negro youngsters who showed up, lashing out at boys and girls alike. By noon, the rabble outside had grown to 400. Cheered on by their womenfolk, Grenada's vigilantes savagely attacked terrified Negro children as they emerged from school. They trampled Richard Sigh, 12, in the dust, breaking a leg. Another twelve-year-old ran a block-long gauntlet of flailing whites, emerged with bleeding face and torn clothes. Still other Negro youngsters were thrown...
Editor Zweig has only one taboo: he refuses to run any articles with an ideological ax to grind. "Readers can take our ideas and fit them into their own ideologies," he says. "We are in the rationality business...
...Manni) by scourging the countryside with fire, flood and poison. Moviegoers may take it or leave it; but those who stick around will probably want to amuse themselves by counting phallic symbols. Snakes and falling timber abound, and Mademoiselle's metaphor for the act of love is an ax blade buried in lumber. Xenophobia, pyromania and sundry aberrations are touched upon, while Genet catalogues the destructive power of Woman. On the night before the woodsman is beaten to death by the villagers who suspect him of her crimes, Moreau leads her victim through rainswept meadows...