Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens advisory group, headed by Roswell Magill, which report advocates lower income taxes together with forty changes in the Federal Revenue Code. This is the report which Drew Pearson charged was prepared on Wall Street. He claimed that if its suggestions were adopted the income tax laws would be shot so full of holes that even a legal novice could prove that the government owes taxes to the corporations...
Bouncing back off the Scarlet stretcher with hopes of Tiger steaks on the training table, the Varsity gridders whipped through a spirited workout on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Best shot in the arm for the unchastened squad was the reappearance of Jim Kenary after an enforced layoff that began at Charlottesville...
...Colorado Rockies, three zoo-bred bear cubs, Solo, Shorty and Blacky, from the Denver zoo, sat up and begged for peanuts when they saw three hunters. The hunters shot them...
Wing Clipping. It was the opening shot in Labor's campaign to clip the wings of the House of Lords. As Prime Minister Attlee explained to the House of Commons later, the 1911 act prevented the Lords from holding up "money bills" introduced in the House of Commons, but the Lords could still block any other legislation for a period of two years. Labor wanted the delaying power cut to one year. Attlee's main interest in the matter was to insure clear passage of Labor's forthcoming bill to nationalize iron and steel. From the Tory...
...Simmons girls, showing feminine cunning much beyond their years, blamed the results on material circumstances. They said that they felt awkward about bidding for dates and when the Harvard man came up first, quite by chance, they were not very enthusiastic. Later on, as the bidding fever spread, prices shot skyhigh...