Word: cuttings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-pronged attack, Greek government troops had shattered Communist forces in the Grammos region and had captured 8,000-ft. Mt. Grammos, long a formidable guerrilla stronghold. Government artillery commanded the whole northern ridge. All that remained, announced Athens, was to cut off the rebels' line of retreat to the Albanian border...
...Mead fell from fashion after the Reformation cut down the use of beeswax for church candles; apiarists, no longer able to sell their byproduct wax to the chandlers, found it unprofitable to make honey just for the mead makers...
King George's ailing legs felt well enough for him to slip into his kilt at Balmoral Castle and cut loose in a Scottish reel...
...University of Illinois' Dr. Donald W. Kerst, inventor of the betatron (TIME, Dec. 29, 1941), hopes that the doctors will learn how to cut out the middle step and use the electrons raw upon cancerous tissues...
...which American League club-the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox-they will play in the World Series. Naturally, Dyer hopes it will be New York because the park there holds twice as many cash customers as Boston's, and that means the fattest possible World Series cut for the manager and his players...