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...look; when he comes back, get up in fun And have a wrestle with him, just a rag; Then I'll jump up and slice him through the bag While he is struggling, thinking it a game; You draw your dagger too and do the same...
...function was simply to skim off a fat slice [End of the Zamindars-TIME, July...
...size of the royal budget, even after all the explanations, shocked Britons. Two Socialists, characteristically pinch-penny with non-Socialist expenditures, proposed to slice the Queen's personal allowance almost in two, and to knock $84,000 off the Duke of Edinburgh's funds...
Originally, the Indian zamindar (land agent) was a creature of the Turks, who ruled India in the 13th century. His function was simply to skim off a fat slice (often 50%) of the peasant soil-tiller's earnings, keep a cut for himself, and turn the rest over to his superior on the feudal ladder. Under the Moguls, who followed the Turks, India's peasants were systematically exploited but rarely dispossessed...
...airlines on the transatlantic run. Trans World Airlines and Pan American are the only scheduled U.S. carriers making freight flights over the route, and most of their cargo takes second place to passengers. Last week, pressed by the urgent shipments of U.S. aid abroad, the CAB handed a big slice of the business to a younger airline. Its name: Seaboard & Western Airlines, Inc., which has flown some 2,700 flights across the Atlantic and Pacific since 1947 as a nonscheduled carrier...