Word: ax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...method of disposing of the condemned: give them razor blades in the hope that they would not use them merely to shave. Alternatively, he suggested dispensing anesthetic pills, to be followed by old-fashioned beheading. Never a man to shirk his public duty, Guinness even offered to wield the ax himself...
...Union member I am grateful for the genuine support we received from The Crimson; however, journalistic support frozen and suspended at the level of ax-grinding becomes profoundly anti-Humanist and methodologically obscurantist as well. The sword cuts both ways, simultaneously on two levels, personal and transpersonal. Support in such a manner, while it tries to get its licks in (and thereby reveals ironically the extent of the reification of consciousness--even of the staff of a supposedly progressive newspaper), also extends and intensifies the forms of reification. Larry Vaughan
...conspicuous part of Government not to feel the ax yet is the White House staff, which the President has promised to reduce drastically. Another advance man, Kenneth Cole Jr., 34, who used to work for J. Walter Thompson, replaces John Ehrlichman as executive director of the Domestic Council. The post will not be as significant as it used to be, because the council has lost several members who have moved to the executive departments. It will, however, absorb the Intergovernmental Council, which was headed by Spiro Agnew during the first term. Ehrlichman, meanwhile, will remain the President's chief...
Like most close Congressional races in Massachusetts this year, the ax wielded by the State Legislature's Redistricting Committee could play a crucial role. Parts of Dorchester have been moved out of the district, replaced by seven suburbs to Boston's south. This introduces a new facet to 9th District politics: Republicans. This is where Miller will get most of his support. Miller, ironically enough, is the most liberal candidate in the race, and has been attacking both Hicks and Moakley as products of the old politics who are owned by traditional political bosses...
...turbulence, however, this deadens it, lending The Assassination of Trotsky the faintly instructional air of a classroom film strip. By contrast, the movie assassination is staged like a scene out of some Hammer horror epic. Trotsky roars and staggers about after Jacson has smashed his skull with an ice ax. Images of Rasputin, riddled by bullets and reeling from poison, are inevitable and surely inappropriate...