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Word: chipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toast collective leadership, Mollet invited his guests to try the buffet. Only Mikoyan helped himself. Mollet then inquired slyly whether, under collective leadership, "If one man eats, the others are no longer hungry?" Closer to the canapés, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Marshal Zhukov chatted with U.S. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen. Khrushchev ribbed Zhukov for helping himself "as though you haven't eaten for a day." Said Bohlen: "But the marshal is much thinner, now that he's lost 1,200,000 troops." A ripple of stout laughter floated across the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Under the Skin | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

Under the Administration-backed bill, as sent to the Senate (where it faces smooth riding), the Federal Government would spend $37.6 billion and the states would chip in $14.2 billion. On the interstate system ($27.5 billion) the U.S. would pay 90%, the states 10%. For roads within states ($22.7 billion), costs would be split dollar for dollar between the states and the U.S. The Federal Government would meet the entire $1 billion construction cost for park, forest and other public-domain roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The $52 Billion Face Lifting | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...same player he had lost money on last year: Bo Wininger. "My God!" he shouted. "Don't tell me I've got him! I don't want him." But Hope had him, for $6,500. Hope did better with Dentist Gary Middlecoff, "master of the chip and middle inlay." Middlecoff brought $16,000. Durante managed to sell Ted Kroll for $10,000. ("Didja ever see this fella Kroll's legs? A regular croquet player.") Top price ($16,500) went for last year's winner, Gene Littler. Littler went to Singer Frankie Laine, who had bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The High Rollers | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...speakers went into great detail on the refugee problem, continual truce violations, and Zionist proposals for expansion. Miss Herlitz asserted that Israel was satisfied with her present territory and would never try to expand. She asked the Arabs to "take the chip off their shoulder" and approach negotiation with a more positive attitude. Sayegh responded that his country could not accept happenings as "accomplished facts regardless of their method of accomplishment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arab, Israeli Speakers Criticize Other's Uncompromising Attitude | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...that if he did try that, when I got him face to face he would not be physically able to hold the job from then on." Sieminski replied that he had served in the Army under Swing, who was "no cream puff," and if you "approach him with a chip on your shoulder, he will knock your block off." Then he asked if Hays cared to "step outside." Other Congressmen intervened and brought peace-easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Work Done | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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