Word: axed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laying the axe to the root, we should realize that the Student Council cannot justify its existence here and has no right to live, but, since in a bewildered moment we have all bought two thirds of the Brooklyn Bridge. It is our right if the constitution (if there is one) says so, to have first, an itemized accounting of all of last year's expenditures, second, periodic accounting of this year's and most important, repeal of National Student Association membership, a very feebly cloaked, padding maneuver. John Zeugner...
...revenant of that Stephen Crabbe of the 13th century who detected the invisible invasion ship of the piratical Eustace the Monk? He was the only one in England able to see the phantom ship, boarded it, and his companions saw him in the air above the waters, swinging his axe which slew Eustace, until he was torn to bits by demons allied with the traitorous Eustace...
...Called for a return to prohibition and applied a rhetorical axe to the liquor trade: there is "a growing practice of permitting the sale of alcoholic beverages through drug and grocery stores, in a deliberate attempt to win the housewife as a customer"; liquor "impairs tenderness of conscience...
Trial Run. In Bad Axe, Mich., making his debut as the town's new police chief, Earl Rapson left the key in the force's only scout car when he walked across the street to chat with a friend, turned in time to see the car disappear around a corner...
...stinging treatise on an explosive subject: American womanhood. His thesis: U.S. wives have made U.S. husbands their slaves, and are molding them to feminine will. Wrote Fischer, still holding lightly to his male's caution: "This undaunted approach may, perhaps, have something to do with the divorce rate, axe murders, and the number of morose characters nursing a shot glass late at night in men's bars...