Word: axing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student with a twisted sense of humor (and a bulging purse, as Harvard is rather fond of administering fines) could gambol through years of unrestrained practical and emerge without a scratch. the line between the petty prank and the felony that causes the axe to thin indeed. The Dean's Office will only smile sadly at the student who took a month's vacation to in the middle of the term, for attendance as a rule is strictly voluntary. But should a student be at his desk intently studying of Joyce he has taken from the library without signing...
Leet has no political axe to grind. "I was naive enough to believe that science was objective in anyone's hands, but that Vela data was as full of holes as Swiss cheese. Three months ago I wasn't aware that it would be carried over and used at Geneva. How the hell can a thing like this go on? When I found out I was mad enough to do some digging." The Professor, who was born in Alliance, Ohio, sixty-one years ago, has a ready laugh still untainted by cynicism. He knows it seems quixotic for a lone...
...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...