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...account of King Saul's downfall in the book of Samuel. Saul had disobeyed God's direct command by failing to annihilate Amalek completely. Saul captured alive the king of Amalek, Agag. Jewish tradition tells us that before the prophet Samuel hacked him to pieces with an axe, Agag was able to impregnate a woman, who would give birth to the beginning of a long line of enemies of Israel. Because of his blunder, the formerly promising Saul secured his place of ignominy in Jewish history...
...declining years, Moore had become a querulous termagant. Gresham was an assertive "battle-axe" (Lewis' term) whose brassiness embarrassed his donnish cronies. Lewis' hagiolaters seem almost as uncomfortable with these relationships as he was. Yet both women were central to his life's pilgrimage: Moore as nurturer, Gresham as stimulus to erotic feelings long suppressed. Sainthood, Wilson suggests, is all in the beholder's eye. If Lewis deserved the honor, his love for these two unlikely consorts was a reason...
...Joslin pointed the axe at the Big Green, scoring on a breakaway...
After holding the line fairly well during the inflationary 1970s, college tuition galloped ahead of inflation in every year of the 1980s. This was during the same decade that federal financial aid came under the Reagan budget axe...
After holding the line fairly well during the inflationary 1970s, college tuition galloped ahead of inflation in every year of the 1980s. This was during the same decade that federal financial aid came under the Reagan budget axe...