Word: remit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultimatum: ". . . In your mad and vengeful attack on the existence of the fund, you have rightfully calculated that you are bleeding it white ... A continuation of your policy of default and smash may cause reactions deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry. Will you or will you not remit?" Lewis rumbled...
...teaching that the ordinary man can make less effort to produce and yet consume more, have, in the hands of both [the Conservative and Labor] parties, contributed to [the crisis] . . . The Labor Government, as the bearers of responsibility, are very much to blame for their stubbornness in refusing to remit anything of their plans . . . It is not enough for a self-respecting Government merely to say that its opponents would have been no better ... In Britain courage pays political dividends. Those politicians who refuse to prolong the rosy illusions . . . and tell the people soberly what needs to be done would...
...Please Remit...
...bill, which includes only about three short paragraphs, would be fantastically simple in operation. All college property in the state has long since been evaluated. Once the bill were law local tax collectors would have only to write a short note to the colleges concerned, demanding them to remit certified checks for sums whose total would run up into millions. Harvard, M.I.T., Amherst, Radcliffe, Wellesley, Smith, and other colleges that cannot meet the sixty-five percent requirement would immediately be forced to curtail expenditures for instruction, research, scholarships, and salaries...
...Colonel droned on: "No finding or sentence by court-martial is complete until confirmed. . . . The Commander in Chief has decided ... to remit the sentences of transportation for life. . . ." (The three men smiled faintly.) The Colonel added dryly that the three were now free...