Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both of the heroine's men end up on the same-secret intelligence mission behind enemy lines in France. Things get tense. Who will live and who will die? Who will run across a crowded hospital ward to embrace fair Margaret by the final credits? Will the Nazis cut off Fortnum & Mason's supply of Twinings English Breakfast Tea? And, if so, will Ovaltine suffice? Hanover Street's answers to these questions tend to be tough, but no one ever said that war was a picnic...
...cartel militants as Iran, Algeria and Libya will press for an additional jump of at least 40%. To make the extortionate price stick, Iran's oil chief, Hassan Nazih, declares that Iranian production, which is now little more than half its prerevolutionary 6.5 million bbl. daily, will be cut even further, perhaps to 3 million...
...mystify Europeans more than ever. At the least, the nation's allies rightly wonder what the U.S. has to get tough with in the first place. Moral questions aside, military action would be a tactical nightmare. Nor does the nation have much of an economic weapon against OPEC. Cut off grain exports? Argentina or even India could sell much, if not all, of the grain that OPEC needs. Embargo U.S. military equipment sales? France and others would be only too happy to replace them...
...closest parallel was another raw-materials crisis almost 40 years ago, when the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia cut off 90% of the world's natural-rubber supply. The U.S., caught with its stockpiles down and accustomed to importing over half a million tons annually from Asia, was forced to create a synthetic-rubber industry almost from scratch...
...November 1972, the first year of 500 production, Development Chief Robertson wrote to Di Federico, then head of North American operations, a memo stating: "We are badly in need of an improvement in belt separation performance, particularly at General Motors, where we are in danger of being cut off by Chevrolet because of separation failures...