Word: axed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pancake, from level to level for six years. It is also hinted that the blinking and gurgling neon lights are designed to keep people awake. If so, success is not entirely apparent, for some drowsy lads always sleep through the 2:15 grind, only to get the Administration's axe. Perhaps the aggressive girl who fires the buzzer late in the evening could give it a short squeal before the afternoon exams. This might have the additional advantage of frightening away the yearly surplus of panicked law students who invade Lamont. The librarians do nothing about the crowd except count...
Anyone who takes Ovid for a gentle poet of the hearth will do a double take when he comes to the sadistic eye-gouging battles of the centaurs. One centaur swings a chandelier like an axe and fells another...
This is a job which cannot be done through high pressure efforts by governments bureaus; indeed the strength of the Winants derives largely from the circumstance that they are not in government, that they have no axe to grind, that they are just Americans who have paid their own way over to make a personal contribution to friendship between the two peoples...
...good wood choppers had been divided into two teams and were battling to see which team could chop the fastest. A healthy blond girl timed each team, so there would be no disputes. One poor participant on the Blue team stepped up to his log, raised his axe, and buried it six inches in the ground. He said, "I missed," so the crowd around him would not think that he was actually aiming at the ground...
...dawn is axe-bright...