Word: pickaxed
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...performance was vintage Ronald Reagan: a laughing anecdote about how he had almost dropped a pickax on the feet of his boss on a youthful summer construction job; a wry translation of status quo as "Latin for 'the mess we're in' "; a visionary proclamation of "an American Renaissance" of high employment and low inflation. But the audience was as cool as any Reagan has played to as President. It gave him about the minimum of tepid applause required by politeness and respect to his office...
...much of the depleted whitefish and salmon stocks in North Atlantic waters. The government's Scottish Office, with headquarters in Edinburgh, agreed with the fishermen that the seal herd must be thinned out. It called on the Norwegians, armed with 7.62 mm Mauser rifles and 4-ft. pickax bludgeons known as hakapiks, to dispatch 900 mother seals and 1,700 fluffy white pups in the first phase of the culling program. Local hunters have been licensed to kill 3,200 more pups...
...fair example of Wiley's bricolage, with its rusty pickax snagged, like an unwanted anchor, on a knotted line from an improvised fishing pole, its ragged sheet of ox hide, its confusingly labeled ("Fresh Bait," "Nietzsche") objects perched on a raw wood shelf. They can only be decoded in terms of Wiley's own convoluted memories, but their point has more to do with a remark of Marcel Duchamp, whom Wiley vastly admires: "There is no solution because there is no problem." This openness and tolerance toward objects and meanings is the essential subject of Wiley...
...Marines in the Libyan consulate fought off rioters with pickax handles, then retreated to the security vault until British soldiers could rescue them...
Philosophical Bond. Those were mild words indeed from a man who first gained national attention three years ago by brandishing a pistol and a pickax handle in the face of Negroes seeking to eat in his Pickrick restaurant-and then closed it rather than serve them...