Word: axing
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...turned to Kacyvenski and Nowinski for advice. And it’s not just the successful pros who advise Morris about how to run the gauntlet. Terrence Patterson ’00 was Harvard’s primary pre-Morris receiver, and has seen his protegé take an axe to his receiving records. Patterson, who worked out briefly for the NFL before winding up with a corporate job in the Walt Disney Company, never garnered the hype that surrounds Morris now, but he says that what chatter there...
...occasional sinister theme runs through his panorama of life in the South. A lone axe has been laid down on a barbecue, a gun hangs from a hook. A sign reads "No Loitering Allowed." A man peering from a car window looks like an escaping murderer; another lies face down on the concrete floor of a garage. Eggleston finds beauty in odd things such as the ceremonies of eating, turning salt shakers and ketchup bottles into family groups and exploring the contents of a freezer in 1971 (Frosty Acres Tasty Taters). From mountain majesties to frozen fries, this...
...Newdow, a physician with a law degree, a five-year-old daughter and an axe to grind with monotheistic religion, decided he wasn't happy about students at his daughter's school standing to say the Pledge each morning. So he took the Sacramento school district to court, charging the Pledge violated the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution, which dictates a strict separation between church and state...
...religious grounds [laughter], that my religion wouldn’t allow me to do a movie with two nude shower scenes and a lesbian wet T-shirt kissing scene in a pool, after which one of the two girls gets hacked to death by an axe murderer. Just disgusting stuff! So that was the kind of level of work that was available...
...work, namely destroying demons and expelling them from the earth. Hence, he was the original “God’s Hand.” Angels in hallucinations visit Dad during the day to inform him of the next targets, and armed with a divinely supplied axe, lead pipe and garden gloves, he dispatches his victims and buries them in the rose garden of a neighbouring church. Worst of all, Dad enlists the aid of his sons Fenton and Adam and forces them to watch as he does the deadly deed and compels them to keep mum about Dad?...