Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agnew did not cut the deck between constitutional freedom or Machiavellian censorship; rather, he spread the cards on the table to reveal any irresponsible freedom or censorship that might "already exist." Perhaps such a critical hand might be just helpful enough to bluff the aim of some joker's camera or steady a film editor's slippery scissors that can hack or heal history in one snip...
...ranking of urgent domestic priorities, dealing with inflation is clearly first. For the moment at least, it is more urgent than even the task of providing urban housing or filling other social needs. For that reason, probably the last thing the U.S. needs right now is a tax cut, however popular the idea. A cut would stimulate consumer spending, probably deny the Nixon Administration a budget surplus as a means of cooling off the economy, and throw the whole burden of combatting inflation onto a continued tight-money policy-to the distress of both home buyers and businessmen...
...last week the Senate passed a massive tax cut, the biggest since 1964, to take effect at the worst possible time for the economy. "A matchless performance in fiscal irresponsibility," declared the Administration's phrasemaker, Vice President Spiro Agnew, in a New Orleans speech. Many others agreed with him. Vermont's Senator George Aiken protested that "this Christmas tree is getting overloaded." Delaware's Senator John Williams, speaking with the objectivity of a politician who is retiring next year, blamed the "100 Santa Clauses" in the Senate. Added Williams: "When the American people get the bill, they...
This Fall, Faculty liberals have again overturned a series of administration-backed plans-most of them dealing with Faculty organization. Last month, for example, the Faculty amended a proposal for choosing members of a new "Dean's Cabinet." The effect of the change was to cut sharply the dean's influence in choosing the members...
...three days that I was there-and each one lasted longer as the crew tried to keep to its daily schedule-I felt cut off from the rest of the world. There was nothing to do expect read, talk to other people, or go to the bath-rooms to warm...