Word: axed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper at a University like this, where they feel that the curriculum and the academic subjects are all important and that they can learn more in theclassroom that matters than outside it. This tends to leave the initiative, in college journalism, to those who have some ideological axe to grind, and may be one partial explanation for the Stalinoid complexion of a number of college papers (of course matters stand differently where there is a journalism school, when work on the college paper is a form of academic activity). In other words, what I find among students here is that...
...this brand of objectivity is not overly popular. Most complaints, though, are based on blindness to a basic distinction: the difference between slanting and interpretation. To the uninitiated in this long-standing controversy, both appear interchangeable. They are not. Where slanting means conscious distortion in the interests of whatever axe one wants to grind, interpretation implies as pure an intent as straight recitation. Its purpose is not to-exclude relevant facts, but to construct as complete a picture of events as possible...
Collins claimed that residents of Hollis and other Yardlings who gathered when a sprinkler blew off on Hollis' top floor four weeks ago, stole a fire axe, a helmet valued at $16, and a tiller seat...
...plot from high school: after the Third Crusade, Richard the Lion-Hearted languishes in the castle of his Austrian kidnapper while Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns to England to try to scrape up ran-some money for him. But why bother with plot when there are horses and lances and axe-fights and slain knights dropping into moats like so many pebbles? The seige of Torquilstone castle is especially good. It starts in the biggest shower of arrows since Henry V, and culminates in a first-rate conflagration...
Stroebel, scheduled to come to trial yesterday, was arrested after he had smashed his way into a filling station with an axe. He told police he needed money to get back to Cambridge. Police said he was carrying a .38 revolver when arrested, and held him for armed burglary...