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Thus, Ana, reliable and ruthless, has come to the fore; there is a new cutting edge on the old party battle-ax. She is quoted much more often and more reverently in the satellite press than other non-Russian Communists. At the Danube conference, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky made a point of turning to her for advice while ignoring the other Red delegates. He takes pains to give her pointers on conference technique. Obviously she is being groomed for a bigger international role...
...Dublin meeting of a dendrologists' organization called Men of the Trees, Lord Dunsany sent a caustic reason. "I never knew an Irishman," he wrote, "having access to a platform who could not make an admirable speech in favor of trees, or any having access to an ax who did not cut down all the trees within his reach...
Senator Vandenberg did not question the right of appropriations committees to weigh and to cut individual figures. But he scathingly denounced the House's "meat-ax technique" in arbitrarily stretching appropriations over 15 instead of twelve months...
...Brazil, its land is best for wheat, and wheat is what Brazil needs. Last year the country spent $135 million on imports. Much of the chapada is forested, but the pioneers are hard at work, burning off the underbrush and rooting out stumps. When a flame sears or an ax slips, friends will give the injured what fumbling first aid they can. If that is not enough, the patient is packed into a truck or jeep, jolted and jounced over miles of cattle trails to the Goiaz Evangelical Hospital...
...looked up at a one-eyed giant who slashed at the air with great fists, roared like the Bull of Bashan: "Only by one big union of the working class and mass action can we hope for the final victory ... I would smash the ballot box with an ax...