Word: axed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open insult to both actor Douglas and the principles of Druidism, Big Trees deserves the axe...
...March issue's contents eight of the fifteen articles are primarily informative, while the rest are exercises in axe-grinding. There are also a few features--a meandering poem about rights and a condemned book about the American people...
Like all analogies, this one can be carried only so far as the willingness of the rich to pay taxes, which reaches a nadir about this time every year. But it is something for the Congressional axe-brandishers to consider as they chop away at foreign aid while their eyes are fastened on the election stump. While there is no police power to force them to pay the taxes of the free world, the threats of outside conquest and inner deterioration are far more pressing in the international case than in the domestic...
...Bold" strip teasers and female impersonators were banned as well in a Friday dictum but so far no axe seems to have fallen on the Old Howard, a favorite student haunt...
...prosperous Republican farm towns of Goodells and Bad Axe, farmers turned out in their Sunday best to hear the report explained, and as soon as it was over, began biting the hand that subsidizes them, with heated protests against "Socialism" and Government "interference." No one protested against interference in the form of price supports. It was outright subsidies for soil improvement-and the thought of the taxes they come from-that irked the solid farmers in Michigan's bean-growing district...