Word: axed
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...hour ride away from Cambridge via several T-lines and the Commuter Rail. Yes, D. was required by law to appear in court, on a yet-to-be-determined date, somewhere near New Hampshire at 8:30 a.m. Several months later, D. found herself sweltering under the executioner's axe, trapped by civic responsibility...
Among the provocative titles on the reading list: Closely Watched Trains, I Served the King of England, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Cowards and Axe...
Trees, jobs, and profits--these were fighting words across the country last week as industry, environmental and political groups fought over the future of huge tracts of forest land that lie before the logger's axe. Fights are inevitable when the economic interests of the present collide with the desire to preserve ecosystems for the future. But one of the surprising lessons of the bruising battles over the environment in the past few years is that green sentiment is again a powerful political force. That's why Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski failed to ram through legislation that would have facilitated...
...line of close and extended analysis of texts of all ages and, at the same time, of cinematic and visual forms. If there is an "eternal return" of the same, or if the spectre of the experience of one place begins to mark that of another, the "H", the axe of Harvard, is not far from the horseshoe...
Funding for higher education this year escaped the Congressional Republicans' budget-cutting axe...