Word: axed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near collision-proof automobiles that can't be dented with an axe are planned by Henry Ford with bodies...
...slingers demand that the Big. Three subsidize football players; actually what these bright columnists need is a few whacks with a ring post. It would be the only way to make an impression on their tough skulls. Colonel Dave (Boston Biowtorch) Egan is an old standby in the axe-grinding business, and his newest disciple is Bill Cunningham of the Boston Post. What a strange pair of bedfellows they make...
...Toscanini's bad luck that twentieth-century Italian music has been the flat vapid stuff it has been, but that doesn't justify his perversity in cluttering up programs with it when there is really great modern music to be played. And John Barbirolli, who has no other axe to grind but the Enigma Variations and an occasional Delius prelude, persists in offering the dryest, most academic manuscripts he can find as samples of modern culture...
...closing, Ross observes, "the problems of adapting a university to the hard facts of restricted income, and at the same time developing a brilliant Faculty, are enormously complicated ones, involving that most delicate human factor--morale and cannot be solved with an axe...
According to a story published in a Dallas, Texas, newspaper, Trotsky's impending disposition of his archives was resented by former colleagues and friends of the exiled leader. The unsuccessful attempt to assassinate him by machine-gun fire, which preceded the recent axe-murder by three months was described in the Dallas report as the outcome of this smoldering resentment...