Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present $500,575,000 budget. Ike gave no sign of his response. No sooner had Glennan left than the President posted an order to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, summoning them to an 8:30 a.m. meeting next day. Then, heeding a forecast of afternoon showers, Ike cut short morning paper work, laced on his golf shoes and headed off for the first...
...foot with nylon cord, gagged Nancy with a scarf and the others with two-inch-wide adhesive tape. Then, one by one, they had slaughtered the Clutters, shooting each in the face with a shotgun held a few inches away. Before or after shooting Herbert Clutter, the murderers had cut Clutter's throat. Whatever terrible rage seethed inside them, the killers had kept their twisted wits; they had ripped the house's two telephones from their wall jacks, and when they departed took with them not only the shotgun but the fired shells...
...scale to a foot pedal that they controlled from below, or blocked the customer's side of the scale with canned goods, or laid meat on a long sheet of waxed paper, then pulled on the end of the paper to increase the weight reading. Others weighed one cut of meat but substituted an inferior or smaller piece before they wrapped the package...
...jargon phrase for this is "the revolution of expectations," and it has resulted everywhere in solutions that do not solve. Poorer nations simply eat more, and either cut down on their agricultural exports or import food. Asia, excluding Red China, now imports about 10 million tons of grain a year. But the result is less foreign exchange in the coffers of most Asian nations, and less capital for needed economic development...
...little," says one U.S. expert. Formosa now has a population of more than 10 million and one of the highest rates of population increase (3.6%) in the world. Even with heavy expenditure on land reclamation and irrigation, Formosa's currently well-fed citizens will either have to cut down their eating or start importing food...