Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shepherd of Israel." This year, because the Rev. Ben H. Cleaver is only able to serve on alternate Sundays, the farm folk of the congregation went to Christmas services a week early...
...firmly apart. And, as is also usual with Shaw, he offers no solution or substitute but ends by fitting the broken pieces back together again. Shaw is not an anarchist; he has deftly pointed out the flaws in modern marriage, tough, of course, he has used his butcher's cleaver for the pointing. No one is likely to be leaving Agassiz Theater tonight or tomorrow night as a campaigner against marriage, but he still isn't likely to be cherishing any notions about it being all orange-blossoms and pink silk quilts, either...
...Penn captain looked about him, and his eye fixed on Bowser, a very fat guard. "Let's give Bowser a chance," he said, and Bowser was put in the backfield, while the team assured itself that his bountiful avoirdupois would cut through the Cantabs like a cleaver through soft butter...
...more indication that England's guests this summer were making themselves right at home. To a country which prides itself on taking its games more seriously than its battles, the situation was beginning to look a bit too one-sided. The London Evening Standard's Columnist Hylton Cleaver seriously suggested last week that all foreigners, including horses, be barred from British sport for two years so that the home product might recover its lost confidence. The Observer's Editor Ivor Brown was more philosophical about it: "We can play second fiddle happily enough so long...
Colonel Guy T. Viskniskki is celebrated as a newspaper doctor, an efficiency expert. He is tough, ruthless, and almost as bald as a hard-boiled egg. Called in to operate on the frumpy Portland Oregonian in 1934, Efficiency Man Viskniskki took one look and laid about him with his cleaver. Deadheads rolled, deadwood was chopped away, and the "old lady of Alder Street" woke up with her face lifted...