Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the whole process was one of mute foreboding, like a visit to a dentist or a piano teacher, the average citizen held still for the frisk and sometimes even managed a wan smile. By dint of withholding and pay-as-you-go plans, the government usually had his tax money by March anyhow. And this year, because of tax law changes in 1948, he could experience a temporary and spurious elation-of approximately 50 million taxpayers (5,000,000 fewer than last year's record total), 80% would get rebates...
...pursuit of deductions. The task of home accountancy seemed to grow more harassing every year. And in mid-March, the man who had preferred not to think how much money the government was getting out of his check every week, had to face up to the spectacle of his tax total and sign his name beneath...
...hesitated to prosecute (last year only 424 criminal actions were filed against Federal tax delinquents). The problem was, the case had to be airtight against the erring taxpayer; for one thing, judges and juries were apt to sympathize with the fellow, feeling that after he had paid up what he owed, and a 50% additional penalty for fraud, he had suffered enough. But the garden variety of sinners were informed of what the Internal Revenue Bureau grandly calls "innocent mistakes" in such grating terms that almost all broke into a heavy sweat and laid the money on the line...
Amendments to the present bill, H-442, which reads, "Any educational organization that knowingly employs on its faculty a member of the Communist Party, or one who teaches its doctrines of atheism, shall be ineligible for tax exemption," are still under consideration, Sullivan said...
...main story, however, is chiefly Hammerstein's work. It is a love story, the pair involved consisting of a U. S. Navy nurse and a Frenchman who is approaching middle-age and lives in the south Pacific. I won't tax you with a synopsis of its details, but it adds up, despite a woefully slow first scene, to what is probably the first amorous relationship that has ever had any substance in the history of musicals...