Word: axing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the council minority led by Crane sniped away at DeGuglielmo's supporters. In last November's election, their efforts were rewarded, two of the City Manager's five votes on the council failed to gain re-election. After that, it was only a matter of time until the axe fell. It fell only ten days after the new council took office. By the end of the month, Public Works Commissioner Ralph J. Dunphy moved into the manager's first floor office in City Hall, to serve until the council found a new permanent manager...
...rural South, McGill admits, has come along much more slowly. Coercion and overt oppression are still the rule in the rural Georgia which sent restaurant owner, axe-handle distributor, confused and frightened Lester Maddox to the statehouse in 1966. And the Wallace phenomenon, he concedes, is a very serious and dangerous malignancy. "Wallace speaks the new 'Magnolia Mouthwash.' He doesn't use the old words, just the new words, the code words," McGill explains...
...line in praise of the triumphs of socialism. The popular Bohumil Hrabil's erotic stories about barflies, criminals and layabouts (The Pearls and' The Palaver ers) are filled with surrealism and black humor. Novelist Vačulik writes about languid Czechs such as the farmers in The Axe, who are brutally herded into Communist collectives. Novelist Ladislav Mñačko, who went to Israel in protest against Novotný's repression last fall, writes in Delayed Reports about tortures and rigged trials that he has seen as a journalist. In his A Taste of Power...
...admission to the negotiating table. "Quakers are in a fortunate position," Curle reflects, "because most people think of them as not being anybody's instrument, as being concerned with peace rather than who wins.... Sometimes leaders under pressure like to talk to someone who has no political axe to grind...
...very day he learned that his papers would be preserved and protected, Trotsky was assassinated. A man calling himself Frank Jacson, who had connived his way into Trotsky's confidence, crept up behind him while he was at work in his study, and crushed his skull with an ice axe...