Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascistes. . . ." On the curb, propped up against the wall, sat a dark woman; her dress had been torn off, and her naked left breast had been blackened by blows. Her hair fell over her shoulders, and she was sobbing heartrendingly. Her name was Lise Ricol, and she is a prominent member of the Communist "Union des Femmes Françaises...
...pallid electric lamps. Groans and shouts rang in my ears. I managed to hide in a side street. Demonstrators wrenched up the iron rails around the tree where I had been standing and used them as swords or clubs; others managed to tear up the paving stones from the curb, and hurled them at the police, often missing and striking their own comrades...
...scythe in a field. When the policeman reached the woman, she flung herself at his legs, clawing and kicking. Without changing expression, he shifted his stick to his left hand, and with his right forearm dealt her a terrific swipe which sent her skidding across the road to the curb, against which she gashed her head. The cop looked up and said, "La garce!" (that tramp...
Regulation W, the wartime credit curb which required buyers to plunk down one-third in cash and pay off the rest in 15 months, expired last week. But as the installment credit bottle was uncorked, most businessmen seemed to have lost their taste for the heady stuff...
However, these assertions, even if true, are somewhat beside the point. Tax cuts of any nature are not compatible with either the effective execution of the Marshall Plan or the fight to curb inflation at home. No one knows precisely how much will be required for aid to Europe during the next fiscal year. But in any case the figure will run into several billions. If taxes are cut to the point where expenditures exceed revenue, it will be necessary to reduce the Marshall Plan to a scale which will be ineffective and therefore only a waste of good money...