Word: chip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth cousin, she, his favorite niece. Yet President Roosevelt's immediate brood looked upon these two kinsmen with political distrust and personal disfavor because they were Democrats. Once during the 1920 campaign young Theodore Roosevelt, to dispel the popular impression that Franklin Roosevelt was a real chip off the Big Stick, declared: "He's a maverick! He doesn't have the brand of our family...
...Dictator Josef Stalin recently sent his smallish, smart handyman Andrey Andreevich Andreev to plug and patch the biggest 1931 gap in Russia's Five Year Plan?the failure of Russian railways to haul their planned quotas (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the new Commissar for Transport showed himself a chip off Stalin's block, plugged and patched ruthlessly right and left...
...John Garland Pollard why he went out of the State to pick a successor for Virginia's first and only State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Ennion Gifford Williams who, 61, died last month. Governor Pollard usually is amiable. But continuous political pestering on this subject has put a chip on his shoulder. His thin lips snapped this retort...
...tiny island in the first bend of the brook, his third was trapped, and he took a six for the hole. On the long 18th he still had a chance to tie, if his second was on the green, or if he played his second short, got a good chip shot and sank his first putt. Jurado was cautious again. He played his second short of the brook, chipped to the green and almost smiled when he saw the ball roll to within three yards of the hole and stop. Any good professional would have been able to sink...
Therefore the commission suggested (Parliament must vote on all such matters) that thoroughgoing assent to the Thirty-Nine Articles no longer be required of priestly candidates. In other words the commission would chip and rub smooth the 39-faceted Rock of the Church of England, to ease the Anglican way to Heaven...