Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election went off with unexpected order. Seven men were killed on election day. When the results began coming in, mild-mannered Ospina Perez knew that his ordeal was not ended. The Liberals led by more than 100,000 votes. They again controlled both houses of Congress, but unofficial returns cut their lower house majority from 15 to eight. At week's end, the President still had to choose between inviting the Liberals back into his cabinet or asking the army men to accompany him the rest of the way along the edge of his political precipice...
...Elmer L. Henderson, of Louisville, Ky., chairman of the Board of Trustees, handed out the black spot toward the end of the dull opening session of the House of Delegates in the Hotel Traymore's white and gold American room. Dr. Henderson, later named president-elect in a cut & dried election, began his report on "the activities of the editor" with an admission that "the board ... is aware of the criticism of the editor." Fishbein's name was not mentioned until the next-to-last paragraph. Then there was a suave tribute to his "genius and devotion...
Burra is Britain's most successfully shocking surrealist. At 44, he has done the sets and costumes for four ballets and an opera, consistently delighted his tight, bright circle of admirers with such fantasies as Procession (see cut), in which evil red eyes peep from a paraded kettle. "See?" Burra says, "It's going to boil over and swamp them all. The beggar is getting out of the way-he hasn't a chance...
...record of 1,364,919,000 bushels. But the actual harvest, which so far had only gone through a few counties in Texas and Oklahoma, was surprisingly turning out anywhere from 30% to 50% smaller than Brannan's estimates (the farmers blamed joint worms, rain and hail for cutting it down). Nevertheless, if the crop proved to be as big as predicted, Brannan is expected to set wheat quotas for next year-first limitation in eight years-to cut down the wheat surplus...
...Christopher Morley was clever with a whimsical plot and wrote in the studied, slightly archaic style of another century. The tweedy, pipe-smoke flavor of his looks and books reminded many of the country-squire tradition among English men of letters. With each succeeding Morley work, readers who had cut their teeth on J. M. Barrie's tenderness and Robert Louis Stevenson's romance flocked after a new hero who could give them the illusion of a jovial literary know-it-all in the midst of the noisy, shimmying Jazz...