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Word: ax (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They are swinging wildly," said President Johnson last week in an apt description of the latest, desperate meat-ax assaults by the Communist Viet Cong. With the monsoon season well under way, the Reds were gambling on the combined effects of weather and surprise to nullify the superior power of the U.S. and its South Vietnamese allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Blood All Over | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

PRIMITIVE ARTISTS OF YUGOSLAVIA by Oto Bihalji-Merin. 200 pages. McGraw-Hill. $16.95. The impact of these native artists, most of them peasants, is almost unbearably and perhaps unwittingly sad. The skies glower. A hired man slumps by his ax, in utter fatigue or despair. In a village cafe, the dancers do not smile. An old woman nods by candlelight, her face pale as death. A gypsy wedding scene seethes with movement, but the movement is angry, and the arm of the old man in the foreground seems to be raised in menace, his mouth seems to bellow wrath. Although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Mind & Eye | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

First they assassinated the Renault, brutally sacrificing it with ax and pitchfork. Then a girl in a white brassiere and red bikini climbed onto the car's crushed roof, where a scrawny youth massaged her with wads of spaghetti. The girl plucked pasta from her shining body and flipped it at the audience; the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Happening | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...period after the Civil War, the plot tells of a twelve-year-old runaway (Edward Albert, son of Eddie) who recalls the nightmarish myth of the Fool Killer when he falls in with a former soldier (Tony Perkins) suffering from amnesia and other psychic ills. After the ax murder of a revivalist preacher, Perkins disappears, but returns unexpectedly once the boy has settled down with a childless couple (Dana Elcar, Salome Jens). The inevitable night of terror holds few surprises, though it does set pulses pounding on behalf of Actress Jens, who gives a dull role simple warmth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boy Meets Bogeyman | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...CRIMSON-cheeked at having misrepresented Mr. Stone's journalistic lineage. But I'm sure that if his editors hadn't printed news he'd researched he would have tired of it pretty fast. Probably he'd have taken an ax to a couple of presses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Heretic Hails JRB | 5/11/1965 | See Source »

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