Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becomes "Let's go up to the Square and jump a few students." Other times the University just happens to be conveniently nearby when a g takes it into its head to do something Still other times, maliciousness ters then a brutal mugging curs or someone's tires are slash...
...Bigger Than Pigs. To find the whale's gland in a 20-ft. head, Andersen must show uncanny judgment, for a misplaced stroke of the saw could slash through the pituitary itself. In 1956 Andersen retrieved 871 pituitaries from 898 blue and fin whales, got a bonus of half a bottle of rum for every 50 glands. (On other ships, an estimated 30,000 more whale pituitaries were gathered.) An average season's catch of pituitaries will bring the owners of one ship little more than $2,000, but says a spokesman, "our policy is waste not, want...
...GENTILE DIPLOMACY, said the cover slash on the Reporter magazine (circ. 115,000), which has been consistently critical of U.S. foreign policy. It should have read OUR GENTLE DIPLOMACY, said shocked Editor-Publisher Max Ascoli, who, with his wife, one of the Chicago Rosenwalds, makes up the magazine's deficit. The Reporter cropped the printer's error from all newsstand copies, but all but 15,000 subscribers' copies had already been mailed...
CORPORATE-TAX CUT will probably be put off another year, to 1958. Cut is scheduled next April 1 in corporate levies (from 52% to 47%), plus excise-tax reduction for liquor, cigarettes, autos, auto parts. But Treasury Department estimates slash would cost Government about $3 billion, wants another twelve-month delay...
...simplest way would be to fetch oil straight across the Atlantic, from Venezuela, the West Indies and the U.S. (see HEMISPHERE). Alternatively, Britain's Ministry of Fuel and Power has prepared a rationing plan that would slash petroleum consumption-a distasteful step but one which the British could take...