Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting strength when it was needed. For all these, the big carrier is still the Navy's most powerful basic weapon; it can roam anywhere, strike far and with surprise. The J.C.S. was willing to listen. In the new budget the Navy had taken the heaviest slash. After the public quarreling over the 6-36, the Chiefs were anxious to prove that the services could get along; Omar Bradley in particular profoundly regretted his "fancy Dans" gibe at the Navy's admirals...
...same 1949 period. And there seemed to be few signs of a seasonal drop in auto demand. Nevertheless, some automakers thought they saw stiff competition ahead, and got ready for it. Hudson Motor Car Co. cut prices on some of its higher-priced models, and Studebaker made a slash of from $82 to $135 on its 1950s...
...What is a face?" Williams wrote. "What has it always been, even to the remotest savagery? A battleground. Slash it with sharp instruments, rub ashes into the wound to make a keloid; daub it with clays, paint it with berry juices. This thing that terrifies us, this face upon which we lay so much stress is something they have always wanted to deform, by hair, by shaving, by every possible means. Why? To remove it from the possibility of death by making of it a work...
...prepared a budget of 2 trillion 275 billion francs ($6,500,000,000), had balanced it, at least on paper, by calling for 200 billion francs in new taxes. The Radical Socialists (conservatives) drafted what they considered a more realistic budget which would cut out all new taxes, slash government expenditures and leave a deficit of 23 billion francs. The Socialists objected to that: they insisted on the new taxes, threatened strikes if as a result of cuts in government expenses any civil servants were fired. Bidault finally put his own budget draft to a vote of confidence...