Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue was as clear cut as any Republican could wish. It was the Fair Deal and its welfare state. The Republicans' John Foster Dulles did not say "yes, but-" or hint he could do it better; he declared bluntly that the Fair Deal was "statism," and he was against it. The Democrats' Herbert Lehman accepted the challenge headon: "If I go to Washington, I will work for a welfare state...
...Bunnies stalled their first half attack, but Leverett struck with a polished series of plays in the third period with a pair of Fabian Bradbury to Jim Wykoff passes which moved the ball to Timothy Dwight's two yard line. Dwight packed its defense in the center, so Bradbury cut around right end to score. Wykoff's conversion kept the Bunnies in the lead when Timothy Dwight bulled over for a touchdown a few plays later...
When he was liberated by American troops in 1945, Czernyha went briefly to Insbrook Medical School and the University of Salzburg. When lack of funds was threatening to cut short his scholastic career, he applied for and received his Harvard scholarship thorough the International Refugees Organization...
...replied by nicknaming him the Pesth Fool and easing him out of his assistantship. The remaining years of his life were marked by almost incredible persecution. As director of obstetrics in the miserable, tenth-rate Pesth General Hospital, Semmelweis, working day & night to oversee his prophylaxis, finally managed to cut childbed fever mortality to zero. But his assistants sneered at him and his superiors refused to give him or his theories any credit. When his book, The Etiology, the Concept, and the Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, met with derision, his mind snapped...
...Bemelmans pops the cork in a village of the Tyrol, where he spent part of his boyhood. Out comes a bubbling mixture of beautiful spies who refuse to be seduced, mountaineers who outwit pockmarked Nazis, and emigrant sons who write home from America: "Chopping wood one day recently, I cut off my left thumb and the cat got it ... and ate it. I am now forced to stay idle. Send me some money...