Word: ax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During early planning meetings, Administration officials had held out the thin hope of achieving Carter's 1976 campaign promise of a balanced budget for 1981. That goal soon ran into this year's election politics. One of the prime candidates for the ax, for example, was the revenue-sharing program under which Washington doles out $6.9 billion annually to state and municipal governments. The program has been severely criticized as an unnecessary subsidy to local and state authorities, who often have more spare cash and enjoy sounder fiscal conditions than the Federal Government. But Governors and mayors launched...
...snow. Bootprints squished into the sideyard mud on a warm day two weeks ago are still there, fossilized, sandy brown, ugly to look at and awkward to walk across. The detritus of the fall season -a ruptured garden hose, a squashed tennis-ball can, a broken-off ax handle thrown away in a fury-surrounds the house as such junk always does in New England at this time of year. But the lovely, deceitful covering of snow that should hide it all until April, that should lead the eye across the sloping ground of the pasture, then into the woods...