Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peninsula near Anchorage subsided 7 ft. or more; the Kenai mountains moved laterally as much as 5 ft. In a 480-mile by 127-mile area off the Alaska coast, the ocean floor rose as much as 50 ft., the greatest quake uplift ever recorded. Near Valdez, Alaska, a slice of land 4,000 ft. by 600 ft. fell into...
...this, without which you cannot understand the central madness of nigger existence," he explains. "Beat a nigger, starve him, leave him wallowing, and he will be yours for life. Awe him by some unforeseen hint of philanthropy, tickle him with the idea of hope, and he will want to slice your throat...
...ample power to check spending through the appropriation process. The House is stymied nonetheless because the Senate is more openhanded with cash than the lower chamber, and most Representatives want to dodge responsibility for retrenching important domestic programs. For its part, the Administration has said that it intends to slice perhaps $2 billion out of the current year's budget-but only after it knows how much Congress is appropriating overall. This is too little, too late and too vague for many House members...
...with the pitch that the new car has features-contour bumpers, hand-welded roof, more leg room-that make it a swell value. A.M.C.'s brass expects the total specialty market to reach 1,000,000 car sales next year, counts on the Javelin to capture a 5% slice, or 50,000 cars. Added to American's present 250,-000-a-year sales level, it would bring the company to what it calculates as its break-even point-sales of 300,000 cars a year. To show profit, it will also have to increase sales of its standby...
...dissects this slice of Indian life, he works outward from individual characters toward general truths. His young couple are well enough educated to cope with the city's mechanized realities, yet bound to an ancient morality. The husband (Anil Chatterjee) can accept the fact of his wife's working, but not the lipstick she must use on the job. The wife (Madhabi Mukherjee) looks with childlike eagerness upon her newly won status, but goes to pieces before the in-laws' condemnation...