Word: slashings
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...when the game was really rough-when thoroughbred horse racing was a contest between swift mounts and mean jocks, when it was standard practice to slash at another rider with a whip, to grab the bridle of an opposing horse, to lock legs with a boy who was bringing his mount past in close quarters...
...than the left. He carried on a running conversation with all his mounts, his voice and spurs and whip speaking urgently but never harshly. He had a theory that it was almost always better to dangle a whip menacingly in front of a horse's nose than to slash heavily at the animal's flank...
...Slash the Red Tape. The story got to Dr. Ralph Jones Jr., chairman of the University of Miami's Department of Medicine. An expert at slashing red tape, "Buck" Jones moved fast. "By noon of next day," he says, "we had found nearly a third of the Havana medical faculty-working as nurses and orderlies, or opening lobsters in restaurants, or running cars at the beach hotels." By that night, in a gallant gesture, Dr. Jones put all the Cuban medical teachers on salary as visiting professors at his own school...
...trade bill would empower the President to slash tariffs drastically-all the way down to zero on many categories of manufactured goods-in return for tariff concessions by other countries (TIME, Feb. 2 et seq.). Because it cuts far deeper than the old reciprocal trade program that it is designed to replace, the bill was expected to stir up fierce opposition. But last week, as the House Ways and Means Committee completed its second week of hearings on the measure, the opposition seemed more plaintive than ferocious...
...smooth diplomat, he wangled permission from governmental commissions to slash money-losing passenger services, bought new equipment and attracted high-rate freight. Within a year, the Western Pacific was solidly in the black, and it has been profitable since then. Just last month Whitman reported that W.P. profits in 1961 rose...