Word: cut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock, her family says she happened to fall asleep on a couch; anyhow, whether by design or accident, she overheard what the Free Masons were saying, so they made her one of their number. In her portrait the lady . . . has a dogged, impassible face [see cut]. I support the idea of the clock...
...sense of frustration ... I feel impotent to accomplish anything." Desperately he cabled for specific instructions to meet the shattering of Chinese resistance. In a tantrum born of its own indecision, Washington brushed off its ambassador's "hypothetical" inquiries: "It is not in the national interest to vouchsafe cut and dried answers to these over-simplified questions...
...possum and .'taters from Alabama's First Congressional District which, proclaimed the booming host, is God's country. Then, after a few cases of Scotch and bourbon to wash down the appetizers, there was the dinner itself-fresh shrimp, green turtle soup, Steak Rayburn (a double-cut smothered in mushrooms), a few hookers of brandy and fragrant Coronas...
Aged whisky, once so scarce, was becoming plentiful again. For weeks, U.S. distillers, who had already trimmed a few prices here & there, had been eyeing each other nervously to see which would be the first to cut some more. They knew that in July the first batch of postwar whisky, 68 million gallons laid down in 1945, came of age. Last week, the new price cuts finally came. Two of Kentucky's leading distillers, Brown-Forman and Glenmore, announced retail cuts of 50? to 65? a fifth on five brands of non-bonded straight whiskies...
...trails were cut when Sherwood Anderson rebelled against the O. Henry plot formula, when Theodore Dreiser discarded the genteel tradition, and when Ernest Hemingway sharpened and toughened the language. But the trails that were fresh and even perilous a few decades ago are now dusty and routine, and most of the writers in Miss Foley's collection are still stumbling along them...