Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly unladylike. Still in her late twenties, and the product of a college writing class (State University of Iowa), Georgia's Flannery O'Connor has already learned to strip the acres of clay-country individuality with the merciless efficiency of a cotton-picking machine. She can also slash through the window boxes and buckthorn hedges and expose the peckernecks who have moved to town and put on pretensions. Her instruments are a brutal irony, a slam-bang humor and a style of writing as balefully direct as a death sentence. The South that simpers, storms and snivels...
...Bevan, by contrast, was all slash and stab. "The Tawies have got the difficult task ... of trying to persuade the poor to vote the rich back into power . . . Eden has been the best-looking man in British politics for 40 years . . . He's been sitting on his charger waiting for Sir Winston to ride and . . . now he's a bit saddle-sore...
...slash in the purchase tax on household textiles, other than wool, from 50% to 25%. This would help the Lancashire textile industry, which is in the midst of a serious slump (TIME, April...
...also keeping uneasy watch on Malaya (pop. 7,000,000), its biggest strategic and economic stake in Southeast Asia. Against fewer than 6,000 Communist guerrillas, the British are currently deploying more than 250,000 troops, home guards and police. General Sir Gerald Templer's brilliant slash-and-starve campaign of two years ago drove the demoralized Communists into jungle lairs, but the Communist victories in nearby Indo-China have produced a new, hopeful rallying cry in the Malay jungles: "Father Mao Is Coming...
...Black. Kimpton knew that none of these problems could be licked overnight. The university had borrowed so much from its capital endowment that it was $3,000,000 behind in its repayment. Kimpton ordered his deans to slash their budgets 5%. He reduced his own secretarial staff from 15 to five, uprooted telephones all over the campus. Though he refused to cut faculty salaries, he realized that "you can't do the kind of hatchet job we're doing without its costing you something." He was forced to drop some research projects, could not always replace retiring professors...