Word: ax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Falling Ax. Apart from this emerging constellation, the appointments held some other clues. No professional military men were elevated to full membership on the Central Committee, thus indicating that the army has only limited pull with the new leadership. By contrast, one of eight new men elected to full Central Committee membership was Vladimir Semichastny, who is Shelepin's successor as head of the secret police. This promotion, coming on top of Shelepin's own, suggested to some Kremlinologists that a new era of the cop may be starting in Russia. The new rulers, though in favor...
...need might be there-particularly after Podgorny's ax begins falling in the provinces...
...mild-mannered mechanical engineer who seriously insists to his employees that he wants "work to be fun" -and sets something of an example by putting in an 8:30-to-6 day, rarely taking work home at night or on weekends. But he knows how to wield both the ax and the scepter-and he has found enough time in ordinary work days to wield both so well that the once-slumbering Westinghouse has leaped to life. When he took over after the resignation of the late Mark Cresap, says Burnham, "I didn't have to think long about...
...effect for two months, the government could revoke for ten years the political rights of anyone judged guilty of subversion or corruption; under Article 7, lasting six months, it could fire or retire any government employee judged guilty of similar offenses but who didn't warrant the bigger ax...
...first chapter of this new adventure novel, Mother is whacked on the head with an ax. In the second, a prairie wagon rigged with sails like a ship crashes into a store front. By the third, Mother's two sons have been lured into joining the Missouri Volunteers to fight the Mexican...