Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congressional candidates finally got our message: cut taxes and federal spending, and do it now! I can't figure out why it has taken so long for them to realize that this is what their constituents were after. We've been yelling for years about exorbitant national spending. This is just the first time those old geezers turned their hearing aids up far enough to hear...
Lisa has cause for worry. Only seven girls can be chosen for the Huntsville twirling line, and competition is tough. Her elder sister Susan was a Huntsville High twirler for two years. But then the unthinkable happened. She failed to make the cut. Friends whisper that she gained too much weight to make the line. It was traumatic. "It affected Susan's image of herself," says Dick Cording, the girls' sympathetic father, who is chairman of the philosophy department at nearby Sam Houston State University. As a result, he says, "we've talked a lot about handling...
...recording predicting that he might be killed because he had become such a prominent political spokesman for gays. The man charged with killing the other two was not some wild-eyed lunatic but an ex-member of the board of supervisors, Daniel James White, 32. White was a clean-cut former police officer and fireman, who was described by most acquaintances as a handsome, athletic, ever-achieving all-American boy. "If he had been a breakfast cereal," said one acquaintance, "he would have had to be Wheaties...
...tell you how fast I can move this regiment out of its barracks, but it's damned fast. And we shave time every day." Because ammunition is now stored in forward areas, combat vehicles no longer have to return to the rear for new supplies. This has cut reloading time by five to ten hours...
Despite their hurt feelings, the Saudis insist they will not cut off Egypt without a dime. But they are not likely to be as generous as they were in 1977, for example, when they reportedly provided Cairo with around $1 billion in aid. "We deal on the basis of principles, not emotions," says Saudi Information Minister Mohamed Abdou Yamani. "No matter what has happened, our relations with Egypt remain the same." A Saudi newspaper editor in Jidda is more blunt. "Sure, we will let the Egyptians attack us and insult us," he says. "Then they will send us a letter...