Word: ax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Descending Ax. After this lively upbringing. Eastern prep schools-Hotchkiss for John and Lawrenceville for Clint Jr. -had something to teach, but seemed rather tame. "It's a great shock for a Texas boy to go to an Eastern school,'' says John. "The Eastern boys were more formal, more rigid in their habits. Down in Texas you start driving a car earlier, running around with girls earlier.'' John went on to Yale, Clint Jr. to M.I.T. John admits that, except for bistros and girls, his freshman year at New Haven was "pretty much...
Abandoning its economy ax for a whittling knife, the House Appropriations Committee studied the $6,702 allowance for U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren's chauffeur for fiscal 1962, boldly slashed...
...barbarian is not necessarily known by his bearskin, his ax or his H-bomb nor does he always pound on his desk in a parliament of nations. He may be as urbane as the 18th century philosophers who prepared the way for the guillotine and the tumbrels. Or, in one man's words: He may wear a Brooks Brothers suit and carry a ballpoint pen ... In fact, even beneath the academic gown there may lurk a child of the wilderness, untutored in the high tradition of civility, who goes busily and happily about his work a domesticated...
...last September an intense, cigar-chomping Hong Kong art dealer bounded into the local U.S. Treasury Foreign Assets Control Office on what seemed to be a fairly routine matter. All he wanted was a license to ship a rare and ancient (1000 B.C.) bronze ax he owned to a buyer in the U.S. Throughout Hong Kong, Dealer J. D. Chen, 55, is known as a shrewd and canny man, but that day his tongue ran away with...
...emphasis on unity in De Gaulle's conception of the State is also present in his attitudes toward domestic policy. De Gaulle is-probably unique among 43 million Frenchmen in he has no domestic ax to grind. only abiding concern is that domestic policy preserve social harmony while contributing to economic strength-both prerequisites for Great power status...