Word: slices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 3% of U.S. taxpayers earn $10,000 or more a year. Yet this small slice of the tax economy carries 36% of the nation's income-tax burden (see chart). Some high-salaried executives, C.E.D. suggests, have lost incentive because "what is left after taxes is not worth the effort." The C.E.D. thinks that "high rates of taxes make it more difficult for the individual to accumulate funds for investment, thus penalizing small business, [which] ordinarily can make use of outside financing only at excessive cost . . . The objective of this type of reduction would be to stimulate investment...
...director hovered around each bout to call the touches and check on fencing protocol. The undergraduates who crossed blades in the National Collegiate Fencing Championships last week could be sure no opponent would blind them with a handful of dust; no one would slip a sword through their legs, slice a tendon and leave them to be skewered at leisure...
...Crouched like a coiled spring, continually alert to lunge or parry, the fencer can feel tension spreading from his toes to his fingertips. And in the heat of combat, the new gentility sometimes wears thin. Given half a chance, a saberman (who can score points with a thrust or slice anywhere above his opponent's waist) may cut loose and whip his man across the back with a bruising blade. Even a city-bred college boy is seldom happier than on that rare occasion when his button-pointed foil (which scores points only when its point touches the torso...
...used the same revealing piece of wood off and on for 20 years, sometimes broken in a desk, sometimes built into a locked drawer-though once, admittedly, it was widened and made into a bridge over a ravine: the result was nearly neck-breaking. The nearest equivalent to this slice of timber is the distaff which the Greeks put in the hands of the Fates-and man's fate, in the Greek sense, is in fact the essential clue to the mystery of Author Compton-Burnett's long (15) line of novels...
...control of a country Matyas Rakosi once wrote, is to demand a little more each day, like cutting up a salami, thin slice after thin slice." Rakosalami tactics made Hungary one of the most useful of Soviet satellites. Slice by slice, Hungarian agricultural productivity was cut down to make way for industrial projects. Forced collectivization of farmlands drove farm workers into the factories, and the fertile country, once one of Europe's breadbaskets, had to import grain. But Hungarian steel and aluminum fattened the Soviet war potential and bulletheaded Boss Rakosi was so well regarded in Moscow that...