Word: broadaxe
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...editors and readers are lucky, they may get a durable broadax wit like Art Buchwald. If they are very lucky, they find someone like Russell Baker, writer of the New York Times's "Observer" column. At his best, Baker fills his allotted space opposite the editorial page with bizarre, often bleak fantasies about human foolishness. At his second best, he holds a funhouse mirror up to the nature of the consumer state. Baker's "growing family," for example, does not increase numerically but expands through overweight and the excess tonnage of possessions...
Charles's work was rough. He had only a big broadax to work with, and often, when his clients lacked the grace to hold still, his mighty swings resulted in bloody mutilation only. Charles would seize his sword then, and stab with a will until the job was done. In payment he got a fixed fee for each execution and the right to draw on the public markets at will for food for himself, his family and two horses...
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