Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle of Bloomsbury the working press is supported by many officials of the Ministry itself and a sizeable slice of Parliament, all of whom think full British news coverage and adequate propaganda are now dangerously hobbled. Opposed to the press is Winston Churchill's War Cabinet, which believes in the notion that Britain's war effort needs no "vulgar publicity." In that notion it is at one with most bigwigs of the armed services...
...clear defeat, the test was no triumph for competitive bidding. One company had swallowed the whole bond issue-the very thing that SEC had hoped such bidding might obviate. Dealers and investors outside New York, who have for years complained that they weren't getting a fair slice of the best issues from the big Eastern syndicates, this time got not even a sliver...
...Germany on Feb. 9, 1918. But the Soviet armies drove into the Ukraine, to its capital, Kiev (see map, p. 24). Thereupon the Germans not only drove out the Reds, but forced them to accept the Treaty of Brest Litovsk (March 3), which, besides depriving Russia of a Caucasian slice which went to Turkey, Russian Poland, Finland, Georgia, Lithuania, Kurland, Livonia, Estonia and the Islands of the Moon Sound, provided for an independent Republic of the Ukraine...
...second time to her fifth husband, Georgian Prince Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine, 59; in a Russian Orthodox ceremony in Manhattan (they had a civil ceremony May 4 in Key West). A onetime actress, she quit the stage in 1924 to wed aging Publisher Edward R. Thomas, inherited a slice of his reputed $27,000,000 fortune when he died in 1926. Since then she has married and divorced Hoover-aide Lytton Gray Ament, Harvard Tackle Charles Hann Jr., Hotelman William M. Magraw...
With the football season only a few months away, the thousand men who signed the petition for broadcasting games are wondering just what was the outcome of the issue. By now the College realizes the consequences of a $40,000 budget slice and also is aware that three minutes of advertising per game would offset this calamity. But two months of silence have followed the last public announcement...