Word: slices
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite opposition fears that the Trujillos will never leave power without a blood bath ("It's only a matter of time before they slice us up like hot dogs," said one U.C.N. leader last week), there are many observers who feel that things could be worse in the Dominican Republic. The country has not yet degenerated into civil war or Communism. There are also some small signs that Ramfis Trujillo may be finding his father's mantle a little heavy. In an hour-long interview with a New York Times correspondent last week, Ramfis pleaded for a resumption...
...Young Doctors (United Artists) is a dissecting-room meller that offers any moviegoer with the stomach for it a slice of hospital life. True, the story has been sliced twice before. Author Arthur Hailey first told it in a TV play (No Deadly Medicine), later in a novel (The Final Diagnosis). In the hands of Scriptwriter Joseph Hayes, the slice begins to seem a shade too thin...
There was a slice of pie in the sky for everybody. Workers, who now must moonlight on second jobs to get enough to live on, were promised a six-hour workday ("this will come within ten years"). But at the 21st Party Congress three years ago, this same starry goal was promised for 1961; it was even part of Lenin's grandiose scheme of 1919. The draft plan spoke of a "fourfold increase" in meat production during the next two decades, but discreetly did not quote Moscow's own published statistics showing the slaughter rate to be increasing...
...Place 6 medium-size rocks in an oven and roast until hard on the outside but still rare inside. This takes about as long as chasing a butterfly. Roast Rocks tend to be difficult to slice, so serve each doll a whole rock. Serves...
...Mitchell claimed. The city's welfare costs, according to state figures, were lower than those of comparable cities. Mitchell claimed that 5% of Newburgh's population was on the dole; the state estimate was 2.9%, slightly under the state average of 3.05%. According to Mitchell, a large slice of Newburgh's welfare money has been paid to recent immigrants; state experts noted that the city had actually spent only $1,395 in the past two years on relief assistance to newcomers...