Word: slice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threatens to be the hardest year yet. With the demands of Sputnik era defense and of welfare-type spending that cannot be cut, even members of Congress who know perfectly well that foreign aid is really more hardheaded than softhearted may find themselves gripped by an urge to slice away at the only easy victim in town...
...than another. The problem is not so simple as it seems. When the big winter track meets bring some of the best milers in the world to the tight-banked boards of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, it is quite a trick just to find running room. Spikes slice close to bare shanks in the opening sprint for the pole; elbows have a habit of splaying wide when the pack gangs up on a turn. And when the pack contains men like Hungary's crack Istvan Rozsavolgyi, holder of three world records for outdoor middle-distance running...
...Adulteress (Hakim; Times Film) sounds as if it might be pornographic. It is based on Emile Zola's early novel, Thérèse Raquin, a somber slice of life that was called pornographic as soon as it came out. Neither book nor movie is. Written with Naturalist Zola's unfailing passion for the sordid underside of reality, the book showed how illicit love led to murder, how murder turned love to hate, how hate led to plots of new murders, and how a couple of suicides ended the whole bloody business. The movie plucks the story...
PENN-TEXAS CORP. will slice its sales volume almost 50% by shucking subsidiaries to raise cash for its bills. Penn-Texas sold Hallicrafters Co. (which brought in $30 million yearly in sales) and Industrial Brownhoist Corp. (sales: $14 million). Now Penn-Texas' President Leopold Silberstein is dickering to sell its 51% interest in Tex-Penn Oil & Gas Corp., Liberty Aircraft Products Co. and Quick-Way Truck Shovel...
...tapestry-lined Hall of Hercules in Munich's bomb-battered Residenz palace was packed, and the exquisite prospect of journalistic mayhem was in the air. Grim critics, with knives sharpened and hatchets drawn, were on hand to slice up youthful (31) Karl Richter, regarded by loyal fans as the greatest musical talent of his generation in Germany. Organist-Harpsichordist-Conductor Richter had committed a double crime: irreverence for the mighty Bach and the almighty critics...