Word: hatchet
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...monetary loss from the reduced meal ticket may be the tutors', but the intellectual losers are the students alone. Economy invariably means sacrifice, but the Faculty should at least avoid trimming with a double-edged hatchet...
...leader of the conspirators, his meticulous diction, classic profile, and a lean and hungry look. Less traditional in their delivery are Louis Calhern, as a rather tired-looking Caesar, and Edmond O'Brien, in a departure from his usual cops & robbers roles, as Casca, the conspiracy's hatchet man. In the vital role of Brutus, James Mason gives an intense, brooding performance that effectively combines the poetic and the prosaic. Greer Garson and Deborah Kerr, as Caesar's wife Calpurnia and Brutus's wife Portia, are decoratively patrician, but have little to do in roles that...
...reality a loyal Communist hatchet-man since early youth, Rudolf Slansky and 13 co-defendants were on trial last week in a courtroom of Prague's grim old Pankrac prison. The unhappy 14 stood up while a 14,000-word indictment was read against them. Then, one by one, they "confessed." They were broken, half-dead men, but they had been left with enough wit to repeat the intricate fables, involving dozens of well-known names inside & outside Czechoslovakia, which their merciless interrogators had impressed upon them. There were no non-Communist newsmen in Prague, much less...
Dixon's opponent, 38-year-old William G. Stratton, served in Congress (1941-43 and 1944-49) and is currently state treasurer. Slight and hatchet-faced, Stratton, an extreme conservative, is conducting a shrill-voiced campaign primarily against Adlai Stevenson ("The most expensive governor in Illinois history"), and dismisses Dixon as "the hand-picked candidate" of Harry Truman's hand-picked...
...suggest that the end of summer vacation is the most worthy target. Returning one week earlier is not half as upsetting as missing out on summer jobs or cramming three week's work into one. Perhaps it is too much to ask the Provost to dust off his hatchet once more, but the present schedule makes a mockery of what has been a very useful institution. With an entire year to go, increasing reading period to thirteen days should not be too difficult...