Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monetary policies of the Administration received support in the poll. Profits of business were generally considered too large, and pollees favored no large-scale reduction in taxes, with a slice advisable only after all government commitments have been accounted...
...hook a ball deliberately (e.g., to get past a tree): turn both hands toward the right when gripping the club. To slice, turn the hands the other way over the shaft...
Still another hurdle has loomed for the Freshmen's initiation into the collegiate track circuit. The 30-man squad has evinced a treasonous interest in spring football and baseball, an interest which on a beckon from Art Valpey has threatened to slice the 30 men to a piddling 13 and has kept the lineup in a state of flux...
...jolted into line by news of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia or the ominous pressure put on Finland by the Soviets. One of the "Save ERP" Committee's points "reconstruction not relief"--is still in decided danger from such influential Congressmen as Senators Taft and Ball, who want to slice the program drastically, for reasons of "economy." If this ill-advised scissoring succeeds in turning the recovery program into a parsimonious dole for Europe's needy, then Mr. George Weller, whose letter appears elsewhere on this page, may be right. Such a "European Relief Plan" would actively encourage Communists, whose...
Pollitt then laid out the party tactics. By encouraging Britain's workers to demand higher wages and a bigger slice from British production, Communists would try to upset Cripps's carefully calculated program for economic recovery. "In our anxiety to drive for increased production," said Pollitt, "we have sometimes done far too little in the fight for wages and conditions. . . . No further cuts . . . must be tolerated and steps [must be] taken to secure immediate wage advances to meet the rising costs of living...