Word: cutting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours before the Senate was to learn that McMahon's prophecy was cold, disturbing fact, the fate of the arms plan was still far from certain. Sober, economy-minded Walter George of Georgia, trying to cut the $1 billion appropriation for the Atlantic pact nations by $500 million, argued doggedly that the U.S. could not run the risk of bleeding itself white for Europe. "To the extent that we weaken America," he declared, "to the extent that we weaken the strength of our arm, we undoubtedly cut the life out of the whole North Atlantic community...
...Wayne Morse, his back severely wrenched in a racing accident, was carried into the Capitol on a stretcher and appeared in the Senate in a wheelchair to cast his vote for the bill. The Administration was rallying every last supporter. In the end, George's proposed $500 million cut was defeated by a comfortable margin...
Following Russia's lead, Hungary and Poland voided their treaty of mutual aid and friendship with Yugoslavia yesterday and thus further cut the tie between the Comin form nations and Premier Marshal Tito's government...
...cranes, and supplied more than half the bread for a whole group of major western European nations. It helped jump France's production to a figure slightly higher than the big boom year of 1928. But the Marshall Plan failed, as many people thought it would, to cut into Europe's basic economic troubles...
Suddenly he lost his balance. The force of the fall pulled the piton out of the crack. A vertical razor of rock, jutting up from the ledge, cut McNear's rope and he continued down...