Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some members are beginning to take price-boosting actions on their own. Last week Nigeria announced plans for a 10% cutback in the production of its much prized low-sulfur crude, Algeria threatened an even larger 20% cut of its own, and Kuwait indicated that it intended to reduce output by as much as 25% early next year...
...phrases "there is no health in us" and "miserable offenders" are excised from the General Confession. Contrition has been cut back elsewhere. In the marriage service the couple is no longer charged with having to answer for any impediment to their marriage "at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed...
Also regarded by critics as a sin of omission is the new book's loss of burial service readings such as "Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay...
...RBIS) and 1977 (.308 and 100 RBls). He was named to the All-Star team seven times, batted over .300 in World Series and playoff competition, and was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1976. A classic field general, Munson handled pitchers masterfully and cut down base stealers with forbiddingly quick throws...
...amenity but consider it a necessity, almost a birthright, like suffrage. The existence of such a view was proved last month when a number of federal judges, sitting too high and mighty to suffer 78°, defied and denounced the Government's energy-saving order to cut back on cooling. Significantly, there was no popular outrage at this judicial insolence; many citizens probably wished that they could be so highhanded...