Word: axing
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...constituted authorities mark the end of the present academic year. Spring always brings its crop of student literary revolutions, but this year the percentage of more notable engagements runs unusually high. Within the past few weeks four student periodicals in the Northeastern States have felt the administrative axe after publication and at least one other has been stified before birth...
...officially for the names of members of the Shipping Board who had opposed the sale and for their reasons. It seemed that the President disliked the idea of Government servants going into court in support of a private concern against a Government decision. He was about to apply the axe, said some...
...fellow bullies of Idaho hard-rock camps and Oregon loggeries, has been at pains to set down these important American chronicles in their pristine vernacular and without any improvements of his own. When he states that Babe, Paul Bunyan's blue-eyed ox, measured 42 axe-handles and a plug of chewing tobacco between the horns, no patriotic American will doubt the measurement for a second. When it is told how the great logger fought with Hels Helson, his foreman, on top of The Mountain That Stood On Its Head in the Dakota Country, until they trampled the mountain...
...axe of the headsman has fallen...
Operas abound in fights of all kinds, and always have. There is a sword-fight in Tristan, a bullfight in Carmen, a dagger-fight in Cavalleria Rusticana, a gunfight in The Girl of the Golden West, a Chinese axe-fight in L'Oracolo, not to mention word-fights of staggering intensity, especially when a prima-donna screams in Italian and a baritone roars his defy in French...