Word: whack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goober" Cox counted on plenty of company: his fellow Dixiecrats, who wanted to bottle up Harry Truman's civil rights program ; Republicans who wanted to smother the Fair Deal; everyone who wanted to whack Government spending without having to take the rap for voting against popular expenditures...
...stabilizing its own consumption and production, the U.S. had had little success in stabilizing its consumption and production of the world's goods. The balance between U.S. exports and imports in a world still struggling to get back on its productive feet was as dangerously out of whack as ever. The hope that EGA would somehow close the huge gap between imports and exports had gone glimmering in 1949. At year's end, the U.S. had sold an estimated $12.5 billion abroad and had imported only about $6.5 billion; the gap was almost...