Word: slash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What was in Jack's favor was his enormous strength-to blast the ball into the wind and slash through the matted rough. In the first two rounds, he managed to wedge his way out of the weeds for nine birdies and a five-under-par 137, one stroke ahead of England's Peter Butler and three up on California's Phil Rodgers. There were some hairy moments on the third day, when Rodgers shot a fantastic 30 on the back nine (par 35) to take a two-stroke lead, while Jack faltered to a bogey-filled...
...grenades blossomed on the ridge to flush the Reds out of their tunnels and bunkers. As the enemy came up for air, the overcast and seemingly empty sky began raining bombs. For 47 minutes they fell in lethal, patterned precision, laying open the ridge in a giant surgical slash. The bombs came from 24 high-flying B-52s guided in from Guam by "sky spot" radar controllers on the ground. Within five minutes after the last bomb had burst, G.I.s were swarming over the ridge-or what was left of it. The scattered pockets of resistance that had survived...
...separate areas of business are so closely linked as those of savings and loan associations and home building. S & Ls provide 43% of the money to finance new homes, put nearly all of their lendable funds into housing. Squeezed by the savings war, S & Ls have been forced to slash their mortgage lending, causing builders and lenders alike to forecast a severe slump within a few months in the already limping housing industry. "Not only are lenders refusing to talk to home builders about plans for this summer and fall," says Executive Vice President Norman Strunk of the U.S. Savings...
...then to avoid inflation? Last week men who presumably know business best, 543 executives at the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, voted by an 18-to-l ratio to urge a slash in federal spending instead of a tax rise...
...rolls out a truly crashproof car, it will make all other models obsolete and serve as the greatest goad to sales since Henry Ford's model T. It is eminently possible that the makers of the world's most joyous and necessary appliance will be able to slash the casualty rate by three-quarters-and that is well worth setting as a national goal...