Word: ax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Theodore Dreiser, with gothic touches, told in Chambers' incomparable prose style. "Dysfunctional" does not quite describe the Chambers family of Lynbrook, Long Island--the weird, derisive, mostly vanishing father, who was bisexual; the mad grandmother wandering the house at night with a knife; the mother who slept with an ax under the bed; the alcoholism; the beloved brother Richard who put his head in an oven...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "My dad was a butcher. And he trimmed every last speck of fat off the meat he sold. Why? To give people their money's worth. We should balance the budget the same way. He didn't use a meat ax, and neither should...
...Yeltsin and those around him had their reasons for giving Lebed the ax, the general had his own for getting it, and he attempted to provoke Yeltsin into ousting him on at least three occasions recently. Each time Yeltsin, whose canny political instincts are undiminished by physical ill-health, chose to ignore him. Yeltsin did not want to make a martyr. The President's career had, after all, been made when he was dismissed from the Soviet communist leadership. Lebed has been feeling thwarted ever since going into the government in June, in what was seen at the time...
...principal Stephen Walters, but focuses on special-education students. San Pedro's impact counselors are simply dedicated teachers with a little extra training that consists of three to seven days of workshops and lectures, and the program depends on a federal grant that may not survive the budget ax. And there are only two suicide-prevention workers serving the 649,000 students in the Los Angeles school system--which is actually two more than many school districts in the country have...
...well known about Turner is what he thought the replacement for the frontier would be: state universities. They could take on the mystical duties for democracy that free land had once performed--with, of course, an academic twist. "The test tube and the microscope are needed, rather than the ax and rifle, in this new ideal of conquest," he wrote...