Word: axing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Last week before the Big Red's annual Thanksgiving Day game with Penn, word leaked out that head football coach George K. (Lefty) James had gotten the axe. After the 18-7 loss, James confirmed it in an official statement to the press: "...it appears to the University's best interests that I resign...
Screwing up his pride at a return Soviet embassy luncheon. President Kekkonen toasted Soviet-Finnish friendship but said that domestically, Finland would never forsake democracy, "even if the whole of the rest of Europe went Communist." Callously ignoring the presence of Hertta Kuusinen, Finland's Communist battle-axe (whose father is a member of the Soviet Party Secretariat in Moscow), Khrushchev amicably agreed: "I am sure nobody wants Communism here...