Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hopeful & Affirmative." He has time for only one thing: to hack at the wilderness, to forge the weapon. David Lilienthal is sure that the U.S. can produce the weapon. But he is also "hopeful and affirmative" that reason will prevail, despite "iron heads and iron curtains," and that the weapon will not be needed. If he is wrong, the U.S. can look forward to an atomic arms race that will plunge the U.S. into an even deeper jungle. If he is right, the U.S. will traverse at least the wilderness' first range...
...knew that he had to get rid of Velazco. Diplomatic observers saw it as the quid pro quo for Braden's resignation. Velazco represented the extreme anti-U.S. feeling in Argentina; his barb-tongued champions of "national dignity" continued to hack at Perón's new, conciliatory foreign policy...
Family Tradition. The man with the new broom is no political hack. He is a scholar who has written five volumes on Ecuador's pre-Inca history, promises nine more. His 40,000-volume library, complete with a museum, is one of the best on Ecuador's early history...
...80th Congress voted a Constitutional Amendment to limit U.S. Presidents to two terms, ended OPA for good, ended sugar rationing as of Oct. 31, and wiped out portal-to-portal pay. By declining to take any action on reciprocal trade, it gave the Administration a little longer to hack away at barriers to world trade...
...baseball seriously. Manhattan may have taller skyscrapers and Washington more skillful politicos, but in any kind of fair fight-say of nine men on a ball field-Brooklyn expects to hold its own. The great moments in Brooklyn's rowdy baseball tradition have usually been accidental: the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head with a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers slid into the same base at the same time; the day Babe Herman almost started a fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket. Under Durocher...