Word: axing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...edge returned when Nixon compared Gorbachev with two other Soviet leaders he had dealt with: "Unlike ((Nikita)) Khrushchev, he has no inferiority complex. He is totally confident, in command, and secure . . . Gorbachev is as tough as ((Leonid)) Brezhnev but better educated, more skillful, more subtle . . . Brezhnev used a meat axe in his negotiations. Gorbachev uses a stiletto. But beneath the velvet glove he always wears there is a steel fist...
They stole his axe and killed his sound...
...that she may conduct religious ceremonies on her property. In Oklahoma, Lucille McCord and Joann Bell, two mothers, successfully ended school prayer with a suit, then, after Bell was assaulted and her home burned, the women sued again and won undisclosed damages from the school district of Little Axe. In Montana, Donna Todd filed her tax return after typing on her 1040 form, "Signed involuntarily under penalty of statutory punishment." The Internal Revenue Service fined her $500 for filing a "frivolous" return. Todd and the courts battle on. Here and there, sanctuary, sanctuary, sanctuary is all the word. Kay Kelly...
...1930s, Hearst dictated rat-a-tat headlines and punished political enemies in 18 big-city papers, including the New York Journal-American, the Chicago Herald-American and the Pittsburgh Sun- Telegraph. Today the company publishes 15 dailies, most of them in smaller cities such as Midland, Texas, and Bad Axe, Mich. After years of mounting losses, the firm sold the Boston Herald American to Rupert Murdoch in 1982 and shut down the Baltimore News-American four years later. As if to prove that it was not deserting big cities entirely, Hearst bought the Houston Chronicle in March for $400 million...
...hush fell upon the hallway. Slowly, slowly, the scarred door swung open. Dave stood still, like a slasher-flick teenybopper about to get the axe. Destruction had ceased to be a good thing...