Word: axed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know what's going to happen if the axe falls and says, 'X' hundred thousand dollars have to go," Toland says...
...fears may not be unfounded. Two Little Axe, Okla., families that brought suit against morning prayers in school in 1981 became targets of relentless harassment. The children were repeatedly asked by teachers why they didn't believe in God, and one youngster found an upside-down cross hung on his locker. One evening while members of one of the families were at a football game, their house was fire bombed and burned down...
...photographer, always eager to help confused tourists, straightened up and replied, "There used to be another tree standing here--a stately reminder of the glory of nature. But its life was ended by a murderous axe, all because of the Lampoon." The photographer pointed to the Castle...
Last fall, self-described "humorists" from the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-sadomasochistic social club that periodically publishes perennially pitiful parodies--massacred Cambridge's brave, defenseless Freedom Tree. With an axe. This violent affront to American liberty and the local environment sickened and saddened...
According to City Arborist Jack R. Kelley, "Those nice little gentlemen at the Lampoon took it upon themselves to put an axe to that tree." Yet despite incontrovertible evidence, Dean of the College Archie C. Epps III said, "some persons--we do not know if they were members of the Lampoon--attacked the tree...in effect killing the tree...