Word: axing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work of such artists as Thomas Cole of the Hudson River school. Cole, as Poet Bryant rhapsodized, painted "pictures which carried the eye over scenes of wild grandeur peculiar to our country, over our aerial mountain tops with their mighty growth of forest never touched by the axe, into the depth of skies bright with hues of our own climate" the primeval forest
...Bannockburn, a village before Stirling Castle. In the opening skirmish, King Robert was caught alone in an open strath, by an English knight who leveled his lance and charged in for the kill. As the Scottish host stared stupefied, Bruce lightly eluded the lance and then brought his battle-axe down with such force that the English knight was split from skull to saddle...
They destroyed the biggest with a saw and axe Felling the trees and raising the tax But they didn't hear the clack, clack, clacks As the minuteman ran to the window, window, window...
...English Department, last major exception to the Harvard principle of "honors candidacy for all," yielded slightly this year when it lowered the rank list requirement for junior honors candidates. The axe now falls on Group IV students and below, one group lower than in previous years...
...even that. He is unfit for the rough-and-tumble of the world, he acknowledges, because he was "brought up on moral principles as Victorian ladies were on pianoforte and needle point. He had been spared the destruction of certain sentiments as the pet goose is spared the axe...