Word: axing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China's political upheaval began, the country's powerful military has remained scrupulously neutral. From all indications, that neutrality is about to come to an end. China Watchers and Chinese alike are now eyeing wall posters and newspapers to discover where--on the Maoists or the anti-Maoists--the axe is the People's Liberation Army...
...international questions other than Vietnam, President Johnson spoke optimistically. "We have avoided," he said, "both the axe and the rhetoric of the Cold...
...political situation that Maddox, the Democratic candidate whom Republicans calculated would be easiest to defeat is now far ahead. The old-line segregationists who were talking up Callaway during the summer are now deserting the Republican camp for Maddox, who gained fame several years ago when he sold axe-handle "drumsticks" to beat Negroes away from his segregated Pickrick Restaurant...
...rally of Harvard's own had brought the team into an 11-9 lead when the axe fell. First, at 167 pounds, Cornell star Jeff Stephens downed Dave Worcester 6 to 2 to give the Big Red a one point margin...
...funny movie. It's also a sharp piece of social criticism, for what could be more absurd than a society that bestows royal honors on a rock 'n' roll group for the group's contribution to the country's balance-of-payments deficit? The Beatles give the Establishment the axe, and the chief executioner is John Lennon...