Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House reporters Bunche gave two tactful reasons: he felt his U.N. job (as director of the trusteeship department) was important; he could not afford to take a salary cut from his tax-free $14,000 at U.N. to a taxable $10,000 as an Assistant Secretary of State...
...said in one of her rare statements, "I can hardly think. I'm sort of lost in a dream world. When someone asks me a question, I bring myself to and grunt." The word got out that Aly Khan had given her a swell diamond ring, an emerald-cut job. Bar-side reports had it that it was 32 karats-"As big as a belt buckle." (It turned out to be only twelve karats...
...houses made of steel and "foam concrete" went up singly or in six-family units (see cut). His one-family houses sold for 14,000 Deutsche marks ($4,200 at the official exchange rate). Within a few days Messerschmitt was swamped with orders...
Island Prayer. Among the many dialects of the islands, pastors and teachers mainly use pidgin English to preach the Gospel. Even Western Christians may find their own familiar words and phrases spring to new life in pidgin's sharp-cut images. Pastor Salau demonstrated with the Lord's Prayer...
...cut risk as much as possible, one out of every four seniors is planning to study for an advanced degree. Since "everybody's going to college now," the ordinary B.A. or B.S. no longer seems enough for getting along. Seniors are scornful of the Big Operator with his mounting blood pressure and his coronary thrombosis. "If '49 has a class bogy, it is ulcers...