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• n  an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
• v  chop or split with an ax
  axe wood
• v  terminate
  The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it

• axe

News & Articles

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• Luciano: Spare the Rod, but wield a snide ax
  As we wonder if rain will wash away summer as it did with spring, hot air blasts into our midst via Random Ax of Snideness. Another satisfied customer: In your criticism of the Rod Stewart focus in the All-America City video, you failed to mention the time spent by these young professionals hoping to do something good for the city of Peoria.
  June 14, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star
• Journalist fights to keep secret sources on Colorado theater shooting
  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for a Fox News reporter who is being asked to reveal her anonymous sources in a story about last summer's shooting at a Denver-area movie theater asked a New York appeals court on Wednesday to quash a subpoena requiring her to appear in Colorado court. Jana Winter, a New York-based journalist, cited two unnamed law enforcement sources in reporting that ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Journalist fights to keep secret sources on Colorado theater shooting
  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for a Fox News reporter who is being asked to reveal her anonymous sources in a story about last summer's shooting at a Denver-area movie theater asked a New York appeals court on Wednesday to quash a subpoena requiring her to appear in Colorado court. Jana Winter, a New York-based journalist, cited two unnamed law enforcement sources in reporting that ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Lance Armstrong in DigitalJournal.com
  For years, sensational stories based on the allegations of ax-grinders -- have surfaced on the eve of the Tour for publicity reasons, and this article is simply no different,Armstrong said. "Lastly, I have too much work to do during this,...
• José Ángel Gurría in The Associated Press
  Gurria said deficit cuts should be done extra carefully and governments will "have to do a fine type of surgery instead of using an ax."
• Kishore Kumar in Guardian Unlimited
  When they were prevented from attacking him by his followers the Christians hit someone with an ax and one Hindu died,Giriraj Kishore told reporters in New Delhi.