Word: axing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding representation for both sides in the controversy, which concerns proposed control of all-College productions by merged groups, Fox cited the need for a group of "feasible size." He added that no recommendation will be made without discussion by all interested parties. "We have no axe to grind," he said...
...even thought I was queer--there's not much to Eskimos, as I said. But they believed me. Then I told them about the Epic of Nanook. 'They just discovered it,' I'd say. 'It's really exciting. Seven volumes chipped on huge blocks of ice with a primitive axe blade. Then I'd give them this story about the great migration of Nanook's people. All about how they crossed the Bering Strait on rafts into Siberia and built these huge cities with walls of solid ice. What a civilization--and the girls swallowed...
Congress should try to deal with the budget as it stands, and take upon itself the responsibility of making reductions in keeping with total national interest. Extension aid to allies and potential allies does not serve that interest and should not fall under the axe...
President Eisenhower has laid his monster budget on the chopping block, but Congress, unaccustomed to such an offer, wants him at least to suggest where the axe might fall. The situation is almost ludicrous, except for the dangerous possibilities it entails. Unless the President assumes full responsibility for his Frankenstein or unless Congress is willing to dispose of the thing, one of its most valuble limbs--foreign aid--may be badly mangled...
...thousands of people who milled through Mechanics Building last week at the Boat and Outdoor Show saw what some say was the biggest collection of new boats on the eastern sea-board and were enlightened in the arts of the misery whip and the six pound double-bitted axe. They watched a guide cook dinner over a light bulb, and a monkey row a boat. They proved, certainly, that private boating is well on the way to becoming the nation's biggest effort, and that the people are numerous who see money with their dreams...