Word: axing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signs, the people axe fed up with the Socialists, and by all signs, the Socialists are fed up with governing. Only tenacity and pride keep them in office. Their revolution is over and so is the thrill of adventure that went with it. In February the Labor government nationalized steel, but it was a halfhearted gesture, made without conviction. In the final debates, steel nationalization was not argued as a good or necessary step but defended as a perseverance in dogma. One Socialist minister, as doctrinaire as they come, conceded over a plate of venison that all the other nationalization...
Before the axe is applied to a major branch, not to mention a whole tree, the operation has to be cleared with Vice-President Reynolds' office and the department near which the tree stands. Thus the cutting of trees by the river is always cleared with the appropriate Housemaster...
...snakes, sand, rain, mud and Okies, I languish, forgotten and ignored. Quite seriously, though, the New Army is no better than any other previous one. My considered advice to everyone who has not come under the arm-garters of our communal Uncle Sam is to raise hell until the axe falls. It is not a funny axe, nor is it a funny Army...
...bird became a major issue in the fight, with friends and enemies taking sides, and candidates switching opinions as the tide turned daily. A candidate dressed as an owl one day and appeared with an axe the next...
...double-double-axe," Button's favorite routine, was the high point of his performance. This maneuver involves a backward leap, two-and-a-half body spins, and a feather landing ending in a long glide to the left. The whole figure takes 30 feet...