Word: axing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chance that any woman will give birth to live, healthy quadruplets is about one in 2,500,000. So when X rays showed that Barbara Axe, 26, was carrying quads, she felt challenged. She told her obstetrician: "I'm snoopy. If you're likely to make medical history, it would be nice to see it." Last week she made...
Perhaps the loudest and most effective blast of all came from Boston University's Jack Kelley with no axe to grind. Pronouncing the "premature selection a severe mistake," Kelley indicated that the ratings would certainly have been different if the committee had bothered to wait for B.C. to finish its disastrous northern trip...
There must have been more to the thirties than the residue of cliches which Clifford Odets managed to preserve. A playwright with a petty temper, an unselective ear and an axe to grind, Odets savors little cliches that clutter his dialogue ("right from the word go . . .") and big ones that blur his vision ("last week I wanted to go to Russia...
...matter were those associated with the military, that is, with the very men who originated the idea. Such advice can hardly be considered disinterested; indeed, Secretary General U Thant in a speech made before the explosion spoke of the many scientists who condemned the test as men "with no axe to grind." The implication was obvious...
...happy medium between income and growth also showed up considerably better on the whole than the Dow-Jones average. Assets of Investors Mutual, the world's largest fund, which is managed by Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, were cut onlv 11.3% by the crash. Explains Mrs. Ruth Axe. president of New York's Axe-Houghton Funds, whose balanced Fund A is off only 14.8% : "We had stocks of better earnings ratios which were less vulnerable...