Word: axing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capitalizing on the current hatred of Peron, the United States would throttle the latent belief that American interest in South America is built around nothing but the dollar sign and put a few needed teeth into its plan for hermispheric solidarity. If Argentina is allowed to swing its economic axe, unfettered Latin-Americans can hope for nothing better than the crumbs from Peron's vest...
Because the bill represented a rather unsavory attempt to use taxing power to coerce colleges into regulating admissions in accordance with policies laid down by axe-grinding politicians, even those colleges which would fall safely within the requirements for exemption joined Harvard's Administrative Vice-President and the President of M.I.T. to form an absolutely solid opposition. If the threat of removing exemption from taxation can be used to force compliance with an admissions policy formulated by men who have political power to control the legislature, it can be used later to accomplish anything up to and including state domination...
...brief sober pause midway between Christmas and New Year's Eve, 358 delegates at the Chicago Conference sweated and politicked through a smoke-filled parliamentary maze. They knew what they wanted: no axe-grinding by existing youth organizations, no partisan domination by doctrinaire minorities, escape from the shadow of past failures in building a U. S. Students movement...
...verdict of the suspension survey finds the sacrifice of departmental resources to the tutorial system of insufficient worth, the axe will fall, officially and unfortunately. For under the prevalent mass education procedures in the College, the value of some personalized instruction is indisputable. One crop of the untutored specimens of the suspension period will be graduated next June. It is reasonable to suspect that the finished products will be Fords rather than Buicks. Fortunately, however, even during the temporary abeyance of the tutorial system, the Department of Economics has compensated with a generous offering of courses. Some other departments...
...could put what he knows about radio in a slide-rule case without removing the rule. But he has a good ear for democracy's voice, and like the new 17-member radio advisory committee, he was selected for his opposition to militarism. He and the committee will axe away BCJ's bureaucratic deadwood, hire talented personnel, up wages (the best announcers now earn about $13 a month...