Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clamp closed on a dozen districts. Then suddenly the Russians seemed to be everywhere at once on the south. Cavalrymen from Siberia, Cossacks from the Don raced west behind the armored thrusts, galloped into woods to slash out German gunners-and the Germans touched off fuel to set the woods ablaze. Soon shells fell on Tempelhof airdrome. Berlin was three-quarters encircled...
...Cotton Textile Institute trumpeted the charge that the order would slash cotton-mill profits by some $300 million a year. OPA's Chester Bowles angrily replied that such a charge was "fantastic." The price boss, patently worried about the runaway textile market, estimated that mill profits at the beginning of 1945 were running at the rate of about $365 million a year (v. $28 million a year average in 1936-1939). He said that his fight for lower textile prices would lop a mere $40 million off these lush earnings...
...Half a league, half a league . . . good lord! This is serious. You must cut that, though you can say we made small advances in that sector.' (Slash...
...Someone had blundered . . . mercy on us! You cannot criticize the War Office like that! You're asking for serious trubble, and you may be detaned under Regulation 18b. That'll have to come out.' (Slash...
...Into the valley of Death ... no, no, no! You'll have to wait for the official communique before you mension where the figting is takeing place. You could mension there was patrol activity in certin areas, but you're not allowed to state the actuel place.' (Slash...