Word: pickaxed
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...clothes, his theatrical trick of cocking his head and firing wisecracks. He killed a Pure Book Bill with a line: "No woman was ever ruined by a book." Once, after listening to an interminable political speech about subways, he rose and cried: "For digging subways, sir, you need a pickax, not a thorax...
...during the first attempt against Trotsky). But the assassin, allegedly an agent of the NKVD (Russian Secret Police), arrived in broad daylight, introduced to Trotsky's circle in the guise of a friend. One day as Trotsky sat reading a paper, this friend, Frank Jackson,*produced a small pickax (such as mountain climbers use), smashed Trotsky's skull and crunched into what a moment before had been one of the 20th Century's most exciting minds...
...ghost had merely been laid, not silenced. The pen was still mightier than the pickax. From the crematorium, Trotsky hurled a last indictment. For he had left behind, two thirds completed, the rest in rather full notes, a devastating political biography of his archenemy...
...Comrade Trotsky never finished explaining what "the idea had." For at that point in history, ideas, to which Trotsky was dedicated, were shattered forever by the force which Stalin epitomized. Before Trotsky could complete his sentence, Jackson's pickax had written finis to "the grand polemic" and the grander polemicist...
Impossible Job. Then Alex Morden, a miner, bashed in one invader's head with his pickax. The invaders asked Mayor Orden to sentence him, to preserve order. The Mayor said he would, if the invaders would shoot the 20 men who killed the loose-hung soldiers. Then Colonel Lanser, who really knew what war is, smiled a little sadly. "We really have taken on a job, haven't we?" he said. "Yes," said the Mayor, "the one impossible job in the world, the one thing that can't be done." "And that is?" "To break...