Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the ballots were counted, the back-door users had given Laborite Craddock 25,335 votes and a clean-cut victory over Tory Windle who polled 19,313. A third candidate, running on the platform of the moribund Liberal Party which is hoping for a political comeback, was disastrously beaten, got less than 3,000 votes...
...poor peasants. In fact, he is always around. I planted a fig tree here one day. I have held this land for 15 years, and never a tree on it. I want a tree. But Corradi rushed up shouting, 'Who planted this fig tree?' He made me cut it down...
...basketball squad's first game against the Hoyas, Shepard has cut his squad to a flying squadron of ten men. His road crew comprises the customary starting five--John Rockwell, Ed Smith, Jim Gabler, Gerry Murphy and Bill Hickey--plus Bill Prior, Cliff Crosby, Dick Covey, John Stevenson, and Quent Stiles...
...assigning definite figures of "historical" size, the Faculty did not cut any department. Where there were inconsistencies, it added...
There's another vital reason why, in spite of the costs, the Medical School doesn't want to cut down the scale of its research program. To be able to maintain such a show--with grants continually coming in from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Department of Public Health, and many other donors--lends Harvard Medical tremendous prestige in the public eye and insures, in a sense, the reputation of the School...