Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story spread across sleepy Lake County like fire in a stand of slash pine. By nightfall all the county knew that Willie Padgett's 17-year-old wife had been raped by four Negroes; two of the suspects were already locked up in the county jail at Tavares...
Though the summer's first heat wave helped the sales of Goodall Co.'s famed lightweight Palm Beach suits, it left Goodall's President Elmer L. Ward cold as a haddock. To clear the decks for a new, improved suit this fall, he decided to slash his "fair-trade" (i.e., fixed) prices by 29%, from...
Think About Asia. Last week a stream of Senators took the floor to slash at the bankrupt U.S. policy toward China. Twenty-one Senators signed a statement demanding assurances that the U.S. would not recognize the Chinese Communists...
...depression" regarding our present business situation. It seems to me that by using these terms we are talking ourselves into a good, all-out depression. This sort of talk scares customers . . . They tighten up their purse strings and wait for more price cuts. Businessmen begin to worry and slash payrolls needlessly. Pretty soon the scare builds up like a snowball going downhill...
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