Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program in history. Bonnie is swept too: one way by Marvin, a chronic wolf-another by Link, who is much too worried about what will happen when the family hears the program to notice Bonnie's new dress. In the long run come discovery, anger and pain, a slash of real pathos from Pop Moore, mollification through the drunken delights of notoriety, and an ultimate regaining of everybody's sanity...
...will be weeks before the ground party can slash its way through and bring them out. Meanwhile planes make daily flights to drop supplies of food, tents, clothing-and trinkets to pacify their hosts, a tribe of headhunters...
...problem was to lick the manpower and housing shortage, the intense, bone-chilling 35°-below-zero Soo winters, in order to slash the 20-month scheduled estimate. When weary workers poured the last concrete-mix a fortnight ago, the scheduled time had been slashed by seven months. For this feat, an Army and Navy E went to the Great Lakes company...
...Homma-Wadi el Akarit line the performance was repeated. And while the final break-through was being readied by General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander's ground forces, Coningham's airmen continued their slash-and-bomb tactics. They were still at it when the last resistance on Cap Bon finally broke down...
Outstanding Committee recommendations: 1) immediate unification of renegotiation administration and policy; 2) boost the exemption limit from $100,000 annual sales to $500,000, thus slash the number of companies to be renegotiated from 85,000 to 20,000; 3) eliminate duplicate Government audits (i.e., price board and income tax); 4) tone down procedure so that refunds will not be forced in a manner to hamper production. Finally, the Price Boards should reverse their "consistent attitude" and make some allowance for postwar reserves. Said the Committee: "It does not aid . . . the peacetime manufacturer who has been put out of business...