Word: ax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year, however, for the first time in recent years, Romance language students will be required to take the "A", "Ax" and "Ca-Cb" courses for credit...
...first ax made by the first caveman may have been purely and unesthetically functional. The second probably made some attempt at cleaner line or tidier thong. Since then, artists have gone ever more deeply into producing functional objects of greater grace, of design that encourages use. At the 13th Triennale of industrial design, now on in Milan, designers from all over the world are showing that they can offer mass-made items as commonplace as axes yet beautiful enough to be passed on as heirlooms...
That was not good enough for Maddox. "It's involuntary servitude!" he cried. "We will never integrate!" At the Pickrick's entrance he placed a box of red-painted ax handles marked "Souvenir-Or Otherwise-$2" for white customers who wanted to help keep his fried chicken inviolate. Near by he also placed a dummy with a knife in its back and red paint smeared over it, explained that this symbolized the "American free-enterprise system, states' rights and freedom," which were now "stabbed, bleeding and dying...
...Hamptons for a special reason: the marine and farmers' hardware in local stores. "I've bought more than 20 axes to put in my new assemblages," he reported. "If I'd bought them in Manhattan, the store clerks would have turned me in as an ax murderer...
...Stamper is a McMurphy who stops rambling and gambling and comes home, with a pretty wife jouncing on the back of his Harley-Davidson, to boss his father's logging operation in Oregon. He had been a phenomenal high school athlete, strong enough to hold a double-bitted ax at arm's length for 8 min. 36 sec.; at 36 he is still able to bare-knuckle the swagger out of the biggest lumberjack in the Northwest...