Word: slice
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...than the freight charges alone from Pittsburgh's steel mills. Small wonder that since 1955 Japan's share of world trade has tripled, to 7%, while the U.S. share has declined a few points, to 18%; some economists predict that by 1980 each country will command an identical 15% slice of the market...
...proceeded to slice away the local leaders' power bases. He leveled one charge after another at the assistants and proteges of top Cantoneses leaders, then gently coaxed their bosses to publish self-criticism and accept higher party posts outside the Canton area. Though T'ao waited months after taking command before promoting himself to the area's top party position, he soon had trusted deputies in all the sensitive local posts and governed Canton unchallenged...
...greatest strength of surreal "anti-theater" is, in point of fact, intensely theatrical: visual images that slice faster than pain can follow to the deepest resources of the imagination. No one else's emblems of the irrational at the core of man-not Jean Genet's black white Negroes, not Samuel Beckett's ashcans, not even Jerzy Grotowski's Holy Auschwitz-are quicker or more deadly than Eugene lonesco's best: when he bothers to aim, he can knock the cigarette from one's lips at 40 paces. As Death and the nun came...
...MOLLY MAGUIRES goes much farther than any motion picture in a long time in describing America's inner tensions and conflicts. A "period" film, it takes as its subject a dramatic slice of the Irish miners in Pennsylvania. It focuses on the miners at a time when they are compelled to return to work after an unsuccessful six-month strike. This is in 1876, long before American labor was bought off- at the time when the Molly Maguires were a secret revolutionary terrorist group who exploded mines and killed foremen. The mine owners sent in a detective to infiltrate...
After a month's rest, the varsity fencing team returns to competition with a match against powerful N.Y.U. in New York City this afternoon. Once again, however, a powerful New York team will probably slice past the Crimson, and win easily...