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...help Congressmen and encourage them," Meyer advised. "Be careful about the words you use and don't approach them with a meat axe. That's one reason for your failure to sell your ideas--one reason for the failures in my own life...
...Axe to Grind...
...trying to let the men know," said Flynn, "that society has not thrown them away. We're student volunteers, and our men know it; we have no axe to grind. We're doing the job because we want to, and in this lies our real value to the patients...
...post. Many suspected in the Council petition a thinly disguised plot to knife Howie. Actually, while many ABC supporters worked against Phillips, they apparently did so on their own. Neither Alberg nor Barber openly promoted Hornblow's petition. Mike Hornblow's motives were impeccable; he had no axe to grind and sincerely believed that Phillips' abuses had to be stopped...
...football conference (except the Ivy League) in the country has spring practice, 30 days of workouts for the players and coaches to work on whatever individual or team improvements they wish. Spring football practice in the Ivy League got in the way of the free-swinging, de-emphasizing administrative axe...