Word: slices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Previously it had been felt by many faculty members that such a slice would seriously weaken the unit at Harvard. As a result, the groups compromised with the 3/4 credit settlement...
Phenomenal Slice. Perhaps more im portant than the cut in expenditures is the budget's reduction in "new obligational authority," i.e., authority to make contracts (45% of the actual spending proposed in the 1955 budget will be from obligational authority granted in earlier years). The President asked for $56.3 billion of such authority, $4.4 billion less than the current year, $23.9 billion less than 1953's total and $35.1 billion below the Korean war peak in fiscal...
...certain responsibilities to local governments, or to private enterprise, e.g., rural electrification was cut in the belief that private utilities can now do the job. For all of these nondefense opera tions where costs are not fixed, the President's proposed expenditure of $6.6 billion represents a phenomenal slice of 25% in the new Administration's first two fiscal years...
Wicked Woman (Greene-Rouse; United Artists) is a reeking little slice of life from the butt end of that infinite salami. A tawdry blonde named Billie Nash (Beverly Michaels) is dumped off a bus, bag & baggage, somewhere in Southern California. Next day she wriggles her way into a job wrestling tables in a local bar. A few days later she is wrestling with the boss (Richard Egan). Between holds, she persuades him to sell the bar from under his wife's nose and run away with her to Mexico. Since the wife's nose is usually stuck...
OMan is also gentle. He can pick up an egg in strong steel fingers and never crack the shell. He can make a cake and slice and serve it as deftly as any housewife...