Word: axing
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President Eisenhower has laid his monster budget on the chopping block, but Congress, unaccustomed to such an offer, wants him at least to suggest where the axe might fall. The situation is almost ludicrous, except for the dangerous possibilities it entails. Unless the President assumes full responsibility for his Frankenstein or unless Congress is willing to dispose of the thing, one of its most valuble limbs--foreign aid--may be badly mangled...
...thousands of people who milled through Mechanics Building last week at the Boat and Outdoor Show saw what some say was the biggest collection of new boats on the eastern sea-board and were enlightened in the arts of the misery whip and the six pound double-bitted axe. They watched a guide cook dinner over a light bulb, and a monkey row a boat. They proved, certainly, that private boating is well on the way to becoming the nation's biggest effort, and that the people are numerous who see money with their dreams...
Laying the axe to the root, we should realize that the Student Council cannot justify its existence here and has no right to live, but, since in a bewildered moment we have all bought two thirds of the Brooklyn Bridge. It is our right if the constitution (if there is one) says so, to have first, an itemized accounting of all of last year's expenditures, second, periodic accounting of this year's and most important, repeal of National Student Association membership, a very feebly cloaked, padding maneuver. John Zeugner...
...revenant of that Stephen Crabbe of the 13th century who detected the invisible invasion ship of the piratical Eustace the Monk? He was the only one in England able to see the phantom ship, boarded it, and his companions saw him in the air above the waters, swinging his axe which slew Eustace, until he was torn to bits by demons allied with the traitorous Eustace...
...Called for a return to prohibition and applied a rhetorical axe to the liquor trade: there is "a growing practice of permitting the sale of alcoholic beverages through drug and grocery stores, in a deliberate attempt to win the housewife as a customer"; liquor "impairs tenderness of conscience...