Word: chipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruling engine" that makes the gratings is simple, in principle. It has a moving carriage that rules each line by means of a sharp diamond chip. After the carriage has made each round trip over the grating, a screw nudges it forward one ninetieth of a hairbreadth. Then it rules another line...
...Ring (King Bros.; United Artists) is a simple, straight-forward story of racial discrimination with a harsh setting: a Los Angeles prizefight ring. A young Mexican-American with a chip on his shoulder becomes a boxer "because it pays to be somebody." He turns professional, is badly beaten in the ring, and decides to quit boxing because he comes to realize that there are better ways to fight for respect from the "Anglos...
...Chip & Old Block. In Des Moines, divorce suits charging cruelty were filed at the same time, by the same attorney, against Victor Meek and his son Phillip Meek...
...Dwight Eisenhower's picnic for the Pennsylvania Republican delegation two weeks ago, Donald Fine, nine-year-old son of Governor John Sydney Fine, was wearing an Ike button. A newsman asked young Fine whether it meant he liked Ike. Replied Donald, clearly a chip off the old block: "I think Eisenhower is a nice man. I think Taft...
Eddie grew up with a permanent chip on his shoulder. One schoolmate recalls that "he would fight at the drop of a hat -just for the hell of it." Another remembers: "I never saw him in the summer without a baseball glove, or in the winter without a soccer ball." (He was the high-scoring star of Northeast High School's championship soccer team.) Lester Owen, Eddie's high-school gym teacher, was impressed by the Stanky single-mindedness: "It was baseball that Eddie came to high school for. He said he was going...