Word: ax
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...from Peru by Jesuits and thus was thought unfit for Protestants. At least one explorer, Richard Lander, was forced to drink poison. This ritual proved his good faith when he survived it, and he was permitted to watch human sacrifices. "The head is severed from the trunk with an ax," he wrote blandly, "and the smoking blood gurgles into a calabash...
...disliked the tussle and compromise of the senate and considered himself more of an executive, so he jumped into the gubernatorial race in 1966. Coming almost from nowhere, he finished a respectable third in the primary that was ultimately won by ax-handle-wielding Segregationist Lester Maddox. For Carter, that campaign was only a warmup. To prepare for the race four years ahead, he steeped himself in the history of Georgia, pored over state budgets and education bills, shook all the hands that he could find...
Healey's ax fell heavily on many of the welfare state's most sacred cows. Education will be hardest hit, with cuts totaling more than $2 billion (5%) by 1980. More than $1 billion in food subsidies will be phased out; a $150 million fund to guarantee lower milk prices is the only exception. Transportation subsidies will be almost halved and construction programs for schools, hospitals and roads sharply curtailed. There will be stiff increases in public-housing rents, which had been unrealistically low. Subsidized school lunches, still the mainstay of many children's diets, will cost...
...surface, Glazer and Sowell seem to provide a much tougher challenge to affirmative action than the ax-to-grind arguments of the early 70's. But a closer look at their statistics, show that they are relatively hollow. For instance, if we are to believe Glazer's contention that the laissez-faire policy in practice was already benefitting all but a few educated blacks and women, then how do we explain that as late as 1968 in a supposedly liberal institution such as Harvard, there was not a single tenured black or woman professor on the Faculty of Arts...
...arrived from jail shackled as though she were an accused ax murderer. Her manacled hands were chained to a heavy belt that was buckled tightly around her slim waist. But by the time she walked into the crowded courtroom, the chains had been removed and she looked harmless and vulnerable. The rather wan, unsmiling young woman bore little resemblance to the gum-chewing, self-professed revolutionary with the giddy grin of bravado who was arrested last September. Now, at long last, she took her place on the witness stand and sat demurely, just as she had been taught years...