Word: ax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joan plays Lucy Harbin, who, catching her husband abed with another woman, breaks up the affair with an ax. She is adjudged insane and committed to an asylum. After 20 years she comes out on probation to join Daughter Diane Baker, who has been raised on a ranch by an aunt and uncle. Diane takes Lucy out to see where they "butcher the chickens," then shows off the pigs. "We fatten them up for the slaughter." Oh oh, slip of the tongue. Sorry. Lucy looks away. Pretty soon, by golly, a person can't carve a roast for dinner...
...when Trotsky was feeding his rabbits, Mornard caught him alone. He pulled an ice ax from his coat and drove it into Trotsky's head. Mornard had expected to kill him instantly and make a getaway. But the old man gave a mighty curse, threw books, inkwells, a Dictaphone at his assailant and grappled with him until help came. Trotsky died as he had lived-fighting fiercely but in vain...
...Thain attributed the new severity to the recent emphasis on parietal enforcement at Harvard. "Now that Harvard is cracking down on parietals, we're going to get a lot more cases" she said. "And because parietals are going to be stiffer, you're much more likely to get the ax...
...Leader Mrs. Harcourt Amory wielded a sledge hammer on a 30-ft. red velvet-lined balustrade; Mrs. Jacob Javits timidly tossed just one champagne glass while her Senator husband looked on. But Mrs. Wellington Koo, sister-in-law of Chiang Kaishek, won the wreckers' honors. She took an ax to the wall, then to a chair and finally sank it in a sofa that the management had not even intended to destroy...
Actually, the Administration hoped to turn Clay's critical report to its own advantage. As usual, the anti-aid congressional bloc, headed by Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, is out after the program with a meat ax. Now the Administration can point to the Clay report as proof that its own reduced requests are realistic and should not be cut further...