Word: axed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faced with the tenure problem. Its imminence was graphically brought home to him when his friend Whit lost his position. But Oliver refused to engage in apple-polishing in order to keep his own job, and he could only hope that his teaching and book-reviewing would prevent the axe from falling on him. Oliver had domestic as well as academic problems, moreover, for his daughter Carol revolted against the conventional manner in which Oliver and his wife had been bringing...
TIME'S index was formulated and prepared in consultation with the editors by E. W. Axe & Co. Inc., well-known statistical and investment advisory firm, which assembles up-to-date data in more than 2,500 different statistical fields. These range from a monthly series on business activity in Japan to weekly series on call money rates, stockmarket averages and the price of hides. From this vast statistical storehouse, TIME will select each week or so whichever chart is of special interest in the light of the week's news. This week, for example, TIME prints (in addition...
...Axe Falls...
...snarling, howling, roaring! They were after him! They were getting nearer! He stared about him with the terror of a cornered animal. Then he ran. Through the door he crashed, out into the Yard, across the Square, unmindful of cars, and into a hardware store. "Give me the biggest axe you've got!" he screamed. Panting he rushed back and burst into the Reading Room. Picking out the nearest chair he closed one eye, sighted, and swung the great axe above his head...
...this refusal to grind an axe: this kindliness, combined with a supreme ability to handle a difficult situation, that explains how "Karp" solved his unemployment problem by first getting a job as Secretary to the Russian Embassy, and then as Professor of History at Harvard...