Word: ax
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...moment, on May 29, 1953, when he and his guide Tenzing Norgay had stood on the top of the world, looking down on a white ocean in which peaks like Kanchenjunga and Lhotse appeared like frozen waves. He pulled out his camera and snapped Tenzing holding aloft his ice ax, strung with the flags of Britain, India, Nepal and the United Nations. Tenzing dug a hollow in the snow and filled it with Buddhist offerings: a few sweets, a chocolate bar and some cookies. Hillary dug a second hole and buried a crucifix. The two nibbled on some mint cake...
...Priscott, a member of the British group, referring to the disproportionate number of members who have lost arms in cycle wrecks. Lusk greets buddies with "high stumps" all over the course. At his first society tournament in Scotland, David Bailey--another motorcycle casualty--walked into a bar with an ax. Confused members wondered what the hell the new guy was doing. He then unbuttoned his collared shirt to reveal a T shirt that read RECRUITING OFFICER--SOCIETY OF ONE-ARMED GOLFERS...
...came to assign the story, although he pointed out that Mankiw “is a big figure on campus,” so recent criticism over years-old actions might be newsworthy. Still, a conservative reader might have reason to think The Crimson has a political ax to grind. Mankiw isn’t apparently that reader. He declined last week to comment on The Crimson’s coverage...
...list," he told a Senate committee in 1989. "It came out at the bottom of the list, and for that reason, I decided to terminate it." But the Osprey proved impossible to kill, thanks to lawmakers who rescued it from Cheney's ax time and again because of the home-district money that came with it - and to the irresistible notion that American engineers had found a way to improve on another great aviation breakthrough, the helicopter...
...often the case when someone gets the ax in Washington, the official explanation for McNulty's departure was personal. In his one-page letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the deputy AG wrote that he will be leaving in late summer because of the "financial realities" of trying to provide for college-age children on a government salary. McNulty, 49, has worked nearly half his life either on Capitol Hill or in the executive branch...