Word: slices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delayed Effects. The Administration proposes to cut $2.3 billion off the amount of money (including unspent funds appropriated in the past) which the three armed forces can spend in the fiscal year starting July 1. It also proposes to slice $5.2 billion off the new 1954 appropriations proposed by the Truman Administration. The bulk of both cuts will come primarily out of funds for future aircraft procurement. Because it takes anywhere from one to eight years before a plane on order becomes a plane in the air, the effects of the first Eisenhower defense budget on the Air Force would...
...pale graduate student eyed his cup of coffee. Would he have cream or sugar? No, only a slice of lemon...
Paris Express (Raymond Stress; George Schaefer), a British movie version of French Novelist Georges Simenon's The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, is a Technicolored slice of European low life. It tells of a dull, respectable Dutch bookkeeper (Claude Rains) who catches his boss (Herbert Lom) running out with embezzled company money. In the scuffle, the employer is accidentally killed, and the bookkeeper, tempted by the financial windfall, runs off to Paris with the funds. There he takes up with a shady lady (Marta Toren) and has his one big fling before the police close...
...patience in peeling onions. "This vegetable has a lot to do with journalistic success. When people are helpful in getting stories for TIME, we always gift them with a gallon or so of my superspecial onion soup ... I love to make onion soup, but hate to peel and slice the onions...
...Mongol Empire, which tells the story of Genghis Khan and the world he made, is a splendid slice of history. First published in German in 1938, it is the work of a Russian scholar with a flair for narrative. As it courses back & forth across Eurasia, following the fierce Mon gol horsemen, the book reads less like a scholar's chronicle than a majestic folk epic...