Word: axing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Revolutionary War fell, and if this land was cleared then, you could have seen the brief battle. And if you had stood for a little while after the battle, you would have seen--so legend has it--a young boy, hired hand in a nearby farm, happen by, axe in hand, and dispatch a wounded Redcoat. The excesses of revolutionaries are not peculiar...
...Journalistically speaking, he came of age in his college town, Athens, Ga., where he edited the student magazine and wrote for the daily newspaper, the "Red and Black." And his most recent experiences in journalism have concerned the most sensational mass murder spree since Lizzie Borden took up her axe, the Atlanta child murders. In covering that story, Oney had to make the moral judgments a journalist must in any situation where the desire to scoop other reporters conflicts with the danger inherent in leaking sensitive information...
...Suzanne follows his lead--spleen overbalances sweetness. Harry Murphy's smug Count and Cheryl Ginannini's hoarse, pouting Countess are closer to the mark--he displays all the insight of a brontosaurs, she the passivity of a wildcat. These are Beaumarchais' hollow hulks of aristocracy waiting for someone's axe...
While we sympathize with the plight of the B-School students, we sympathize more with the plight of Cambridge, where 25 per cent of municipal employees are scheduled to lose their jobs this spring, and Boston, where 3000 or more workers face the axe. Administrators may point to the University's autonomous each-tub-on-its-own-bottom financial system and say it would be impossible to divert B-School funds for general use. The point, though, is that there is money around the University that could be forwarded to Cambridge without decreasing the quality of education...
...last two years, NORML has been a crippled lobby. While Stroup has formed a law firm specializing in defending drug smugglers, NORML has been fighting a losing battle against the resurgence of the Reefer Madness mentality, the belief that marijuana makes you pick up an axe and kill your parents. We are hurtling backwards through a period about which we should be ashamed. Anderson concludes his narrative by observing...