Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief proponent, Vice President Henry Wallace. Said she: "Mr. Wallace ... has a wholly disarming way of being intermittently inspiring and spasmodically sound. ... He does a great deal of global thinking. But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still 'globaloney.' . . ." Republicans chuckled...
Economy-With Teeth. In the House, Missouri's knob-nosed Clarence Cannon, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, moved to give his committee sweeping powers to slice nonwar expenditures. He proposed that the committee have authority to issue subpoenas, compel witnesses to testify under oath, and to hire technical experts to sleuth through the budget. In a Congress bent on economy, his proposal seemed certain of approval...
Economy. Senator Harry F. Byrd's committee was already hard at work on plans to slice the budget wherever fat appeared. (Many a Senator and Congressman would join in the surgery more out of distaste for New Deal bureaus than love for saving.) But there would be more oratory than knife-wielding: the budget called for cuts of $458,000,000 in nonwar expenditure, and few observers believed that Congress could raise this figure above a billion...
...singular. An account of eating and drinking with a lot of fornication accompanied by conversations on the lowest level, with some slight intelligence but no ideas, and nothing else-and yet it seems a slice of life, and you are not bored with details of an ordinary day. It reminds me of a reflection that I often make on how large a part of the time and thoughts of even the best of us are taken up by animal wants. ... But then this lad could write this book, which must be a work...
...Langers had tea for breakfast and, being both provident and well-heeled, a thin slice of bread each. At noon they had cabbage soup. At night they had it again. All they could normally buy was cabbage, which was raised in every vacant lot; and horse meat. Once they got a "terribly skinny" pigeon, his wing broken by shrapnel. The children ate it "with shouts of joy." Rulka chewed the bones...