Word: axing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contributors, the spokesmen for popular aspirations (an understandable situation in a country where no legal means of opposition were available, writers and journalists had access to the media recently freed from censorship). The philosopher Ivan Svitak was calling for workers' councils while Martin Vaculik, the author of The Axe (Harper and Row), published his famous 2000-word manifesto, a political program for the whole country, which was greatly to anger Mr. Brezhnev...
...discrediting comes even easier in this case because the community relations people need only tell Bok that it is simply the same old ineffectual people banging again on the Mass Hall door. And they would be right. Each one of the leaders has been grinding the community axe for so long that its blades are all but worn away. Harvard Square Task Force head Oliver Brooks has been a thorn in Harvard's side ever since he pushed for community input when building Harvard's low-cost housing projects of the '60s. Pebble Gifford was instrumental in compiling the Harvard...
Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, who sponsored the task force proposal, said the change would ensure that decisions on Harvard Square planning "would not be left to a handful of people with an axe to grind or a personal interest in development...
Butler dismisses most union claims because he says the organizers have an axe to grind. Butler also contests the organizers' objections to the promotion system...
...verbal thrust and counterthrust, the sharp criticism of women's roles in society. Consider a typical Coward "life-line": "If there's one thing in the world that infuriates me, it's sheer wanton stubbornness. I should like to cut off your head with a meat axe." Without Jan Lewis's acid-coated delivery and Hutson's wry cool on stage, Coward's play would never escape the quagmire it so richly deserves. Mark Swiney, Carla Dragoni, and Patsy Culbert portray brilliantly the assorted pathologies of organic brain damage, a chronic symptom of Coward's background characters...