Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permanently arched tail is the result of an operation and an excruciatingly painful setting process. A veterinarian cuts and breaks the horse's tail much as an unskilled woodsman might hack and push down a sapling. Incisions are made on, the upper side, the flexor muscles on the under side cut eight to twelve inches back from the base. Then the tail is doubled back, tightly bandaged, supported by an iron "bustle." Three weeks are usually required for the tail to heal and set. Thrown into a sweating frenzy by this prolonged torture, horses often lose more than...
...repealing the pension patchwork of years, the Economy Act permitted the President to divide the wartime sheep from the peacetime goats and pension those with real claims on the U. S. Likewise he was free to hack all civil and military salaries 15%. Next step: issuance of executive orders establishing new pension groups and putting cuts into effect...
Leon, gentle young artist, divided his allegiance between the Communist Party and his best friend Jason, ex-poet, drunken, disillusioned hack-writer of sex stories. Celia, niece of Leon's landlady, cast soft but unavailing eyes at him. Leon was heart-whole till, one night at a Party meeting, he met the luscious Helen. Helen thought him cute, and encouraged him, but not seriously: she was living with a Mexican. Leon, blissfully ignorant, worshiped her from afar. In Jason's tenement lived one Hank Austin & family. Hank was a husky, ivory-headed warehouse worker; he made good wages...
...Eastern students might well take some heed of the Tribune's editorial and at least confine their out of place remarks, incited by false pride, to private discussions. John T. Hack...
...pranced around the stage, effectively shrilling her hatred for her mother Queen Klytemnestra, passionately pleading for the help of her lovely weak sister Chrysothemis (Soprano Goeta Ljungberg), eerily warning the conscience-stricken queen of the day when her son Orestes shall return, come upon her in her bed, hack her with an axe until blood streams red as it streamed in Agamemnon's bath...