Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the past month, one-half of what it did during four years of war. Economy-minded legislators, in their desire to operate a low-cost government, are apparently ignoring the necessity of maintaining military forces in Germany and Japan sufficient to insure successful Occupation. President Truman's proposed slash of the Army and Navy allotment by almost one-half has been criticized by Senator Taft, whose suggested 1947 budget cuts the Truman expenditures by over sixteen billion dollars. Running the country with lower expenditures may be justified in the termination of the emergency and the dissolution of many...
...instance, claim that they still do not know whether or how much or when the U.S. would be willing to lower its own tariff barriers in exchange for a relaxation of the Empire Preference system and British import restrictions. They know that the U.S. President has powers to slash tariffs as much as 50%, but they imply (as politely as possible) their doubts that Harry Truman could actually do so at the moment...
...belief that the stampede would slash future demands for feed, corn prices dropped 32? a bushel. Wheat was down also, along with oats. By week's end, the Dow-Jones commodity-futures index had fallen seven points, the biggest since 1933 when the index was started...
...passes, all from the T-formation, brought the pigskin to the one yard line, where Bell cracked the stout Lowell line for six points. In the final period, the Deacons salted the game away with a drive from the Lowell 35, climaxed by Glynn's 10 yard scoring slash off tackle...
Technically speaking, there is only one building in the Village, since over 2 1-2 miles of corridor connects one extremity with another and a determined sort of person could get to every building without going outside save to cross the three streets that slash the development from north to south. Possibly to give the Villagers a sense of "belonging" the three streets are named Eliot, Dunster, and Lowell. The whole of the Village is contained within a looping road that is at once the perimeter and the only means of getting in or out; a gate, guarded...