Word: ax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic charts, makes recommendations for major economic moves, and provides a large part of the statistics that the President loves to release. Says Ackley: "The President has learned we can do things no one else can do. He likes the idea of having a group that has no ax to grind...
McNamara's Ax...
...customs require new, uncustomary terms. Folk singers in Washington, D.C., strum the strings of an ax. At Chicago a strong drinker is a long hitter; at the University of Texas those who can't hold it crash and burn under the table. A bag is an object, group or mood. I am in a pizza bag means "I want pizza." Where is the beard bag? means "Where are the beatniks...
...closing of 95 military installations last month was only one step in Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's plan to streamline and modernize the nation's armed forces. Last week the efficiency-minded Secretary took another giant step: he put the ax to one of the Army's most sacred cows, one that is especially beloved by politicians who like to sport stars and eagles on short summer-training tours...
Rolling Heads. Among the 24 Enquirer staffers eliminated in the name of efficiency were two photographers, seven newsmen, the editor of the Sunday feature page-and Managing Editor Ralph L. Holsinger. The Proudfoot ax also cut swaths through the classified-ad department (15 heads) and the circulation department (five). Only in the composing room did the efficiency experts fall down on the job-only because the shop foremen flatly refused to let them...