Word: axing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Kafka was funny and I certainly think the same of these works. I mean just look at the variety of weapons that Jason Voorhees, our friendly neighborhood psycho, keeps on hand I mean he has a machete, a spear-gun, a penknife, a chainsaw, a leather thong, an axe, a bow and arrow, a pair of garden shears, and other sharp, pointy objects. And all of these just happen to be indigenous to the Lake Crystal area. I laughed all day long...
While Oklahoma has finally taken the first step toward getting in touch with the 20th century and moving on from the days of the 18th Amendment and axe-wielding Carrie Nation, the decision sends a highly ambiguous message--just 15,000 switched votes would have meant a totally different story. Instead of a sentimental story about Oklahoma's fall from saloon-free innocence, 13 voters per precinct could have made it a story about Oklahoma's fall from saloon-free innocence, 13 voters per precinct could have made it a story about intransigence and the perseverance of atavistic traditions...
Diamond says, however, that he has no particular axe to grind with Harvard. The New York Review of Books article was the only one in which he discussed his own experiences in the McCarthy period...
...likes Don Giovanni, not even his dedicated servant Leporella. And the entire opera involves a number of characters who have an axe to grind with the infamous seducer, who nonchalantly displays his talents while the others hatch their plans. But in the end Don Giovanni meets his deserving demise, not from the living characters, but from the ghost of a man whom the protagonist killed in a fit of rage at the beginning of the story. It is not easy to play a character whom everyone hates and whose mysterious--subtly sexual--personality attracts women regardless of their social background...
...more unfortunate results of the Reagan years is the growing deafness among Americans to the sound of the Presidential axe. Stunned by the harshness of the early Reagan budgets, the country has been unable to muster much opposition to successive plans, largely out of exhaustion. When the budget for fiscal years 1985 was released last week, attention focused on the ballooning government deficit and overlooked the guaranteed social inequality and demolished programs that can be expected from Administration policies...