Word: chapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moslem section of Calcutta and TLI's distributor, a Hindu like most Indian businessmen, did not dare try to recover them. Baker located a bearer who was a Christian and helped load the back copies of TIME into a truck himself. Later, the bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band of Moslems who mistook him for a Hindu and wanted to kill him. He finally convinced them that he was a Roman Catholic by showing his crucifix and answering some questions about the Bible put by a mission-bred Moslem...
...them in 24-carat gold inlaid with precious gems-but horses are his forte, at a fee of $1,800 to $30,000 apiece. "I used to feel a bit put out," says Haseltine with a deprecating shrug, "when people referred to me as 'the horse-sculptor chap...
...Britain, they still gaped at the facts & fable of his wealth and power. "Henry bloody Ford," said a Glaswegian. "I am a cheap Ford salesman and Ford's a gentleman. He captured the world. Head of the atomic energy he is too. Mon! He's a fine chap." But Socialist conservatism also spoke. Said a taxi driver: "No, we can't afford Henry Ford today. It's a good thing all that big business is finished over here...
...convict him of more. So he dragged up the "accumulated unpleasant incidents" Durocher had been involved in (TIME, April 14). All of these had happened before the spring season began. Said the New York Times's Columnist Arthur Daley: "The Lip is in a comparable position to the chap hauled into traffic court for driving through a red light and then being sentenced to the electric chair. If this is the Chandler type of justice, then the club owners could make a good investment for themselves by buying up the remainder of his [$250,000] contract...
With significant assistance from the rest of his Pennsylvania colleagues, a chap named Don DeForest wrapped up 15 points by himself last Saturday in a meet against Hal Ulen's visiting men, and drowned them in their Philadelphia pool...