Word: cut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MANHATTAN, on the grounds that four garage mechanics had been fired, the Transport Workers' hardheaded Mike Quill cut off transportation for 1,250,000 New York bus riders. Ignoring a no-strike pledge he made only two weeks ago, and blandly passing over the original excuse for the strike, Quill threatened to keep the boys out until he got them an extra 21? an hour, a 40-hour week and a whole string of pension and welfare concessions...
...also had a slight brush with trouble in 1946, when he appeared as a witness at the Senate investigation of the war-contracts frauds engineered by the Garsson brothers. General Waitt had enjoyed some of the Garssons' hospitality, danced happily with Murray Garsson's daughter, Natalie (see cut...
...signs and complicated handgrips. New members are sent upon symbolic journeys through wildernesses of sawhorses and overturned chairs. Old members toll bells and simulate the groans of lost souls, solemnly chant and portentously listen as the initiate promises to keep the secrets of the order or have his throat cut and his tongue pulled out by the roots...
There was some plainer speaking. Earlier in the week, Cripps had told the House of Commons that Britain would cut her imports from the dollar area by 25% to help stop the drain on her dollar supply. Now, Cripps wanted the Commonwealth to cut its own dollar area imports...
...Vatican had known it would stir up such a storm in hundreds of thousands of minds. "The misguided or illusioned," said a Vatican spokesman, "will be obliged to review their ideas and cut off their [Party] membership...