Word: axing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figure it, my tutor will learn to live with student power--begrudgingly but nevertheless. He may even learn to live with Eldridge Cleaver, though I'm hedging in my bets. But he won't learn to live with anything or anybody that sticks an axe in the face--so why bother? In America, for the time being, revolutions are to be sold rather than made...
Give 'Em the Axe...
Mahoney's polite came under attack from Vellucci who charged "He just wants to keep the guy from M.I.T. and give the axe to Harvard. The big bosses at M.I.T. told him 'vote for Lunn or we'll get rid of you.'" Mahoney is a professor at M.I.T...
...remaining replacement series are game shows. The Generation Gap from David Susskind's Talent Associates, pits a team of three teen-agers against a trio of adults. The kids, it turned out, could not identify Eddie Cantor or the FCC. The fogeys didn't know an "axe" (a guitar) from a hole in the ground. Mostly the show just proved that people who appear on such programs have an intelligence gap. Finally, ABC is adding a prime-time version of Let's Make a Deal, the afternoon show in which hysterical housewives bid against each other...
Figures first. The bus costs $56 a night and the fare is 10 cents a ride. Mr. Leahy, the man responsible for articulating the decision to axe the bus, claims, "We've been losing $20 to $30 every night." What his figures do not tell you, though, is that the bus conversely has been earning $26 to $36 every night, meaning that 130 to 180 people ride the bus nightly (assuming all riders ride round-trip), and that is still quite...