Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stockholm police cut short the Hungarian victory celebration to chip off a little more glory. They nabbed husky, blonde Gizi Farkas, three times world champion Ping-Pongstress. As with her other compatriots, Gizi's excursion this side of the Iron Curtain was an occasion for stocking up on nylons, watches, lighters-all the paraphernalia of the bourgeois West. She was so awe-struck at the sight of Swedish abundance that she had bagged a handsome wool jacket without paying for it. "I've never seen such a beautiful thing before," she admitted. "I just couldn't resist...
Along with Dick Covey, who has been in the starting lineup for most of the season, will be Steve Davis at guard. Davis scored ten points against Army. This means that Captain Chip Gannon will be sitting on the bench when the starting buzzer sounds...
Bowdoin was completely unable to fend off the varsity yesterday, as foilsmen Bill Raney and Joe Vera speared three matches apiece, Chip Arp took two, and Frankman one, for a clean sweep in the division...
Alex Rupp, in the 128 class, has been getting almost too heavy for his position lately. Chafee says Rupp's weight-gaining pounds home the need for some more lightweights on the team. But that doesn't mean that Bill Joyner at 121 and Chip Carter at 136 aren't a feather in any coaches...
Winter or ice finishing is fine for the casual athlete who can only operate with bursts of energy. The technique, practised wherever there is ice in New England, is to chip a simple hole in the ice, drop a hook and bait into the water. At the other end of the line you attach a wooden bob with a violent red flag on a short length of stick and lay same on the ice next to the hole...