Word: chipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Permanent Chip. The belligerent Stanky temperament is the result of both heredity and environment. He was born in the workingman's Kensington section of Philadelphia on Sept. 3, 1917, of German-Russian parents. His father, a leather glazer, was a frustrated semi-pro ballplayer. By the time Eddie could sit up, he was rolling a baseball on the floor. His mother recalls a pickup game on a nearby sandlot, when Eddie was still only a shaver. He was the catcher, and, overeager as usual, he crowded so close to the plate that he was knocked cold when the batter...
Vegetable with a Chip. Progress came slowly, but it came. A nine-year-old who used to scream and writhe uncontrollably now does second-grade reading; a husky 14-year-old who came in like "a vegetable with a chip on his shoulder" was coaxed into struggling with his three...
Last week in Manhattan, administrators announced that the estate's value came to some $95 million. The list of assets included 36 pages of bonds, eight pages of blue-chip stocks, e.g., $2.8 million worth of Dow Chemical. Then came a final, eccentric footnote. As Mrs. Wilks's biggest single asset, the tabulation revealed a personal checking account which she had used for everything from $2 light bills to multimillion-dollar business deals. The balance at her death: $31 million...
...Under the Chip. At his press conference, when a reporter asked a question which might have brought a sharp reply, Truman managed to drop a homely colloquialism into his answer. Did the President have any comment on the House Judiciary subcommittee's refusal to grant immunity powers to Newbold Morris, his cleanup man? Truman replied that he thought Morris, to do a bangup job, should be able to promise cooperative key witnesses immunity from prosecution. The immunity was his own idea, he said, and there wasn't any bug under the chip (meaning concealed or secret, according...
...opening day of over-the-counter trading, the first sale was reported at 44½. Twenty minutes later the price shot to 47. By day's end, it had steadied around 44, or 23 times earnings (more than double many "blue chip" stocks...