Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who insist on staying in the blue-chip game, the problem can only get worse-and in so doing, may help solve itself. With the new jets costing around $5,000,000 apiece, the international airline business will soon get so expensive that few of the small newcomers will be able to afford the heavy losses of competition in return for the hollow luxury of showing their flags to blase travelers at the world's airports...
...switcher," who puts quality butter (60? a lb.) in the oleo box (30? a lb.). Another switcher trick: she partially empties a potato-chip tin, hides meat and other items in the bottom...
...offbeat nightclubs and twice a week on NBC Radio's Nightline (Tues. and Thurs. 9:10 p.m., E.S.T.), Comic Sahl has been convulsing audiences with his chip-on-shoulder, seemingly ad-libbed yuks. Not everyone has been convulsed. A bitter, nervous type, Sahl talked himself right out of two TV contracts by tactlessly placed sallies, offended network brass by opening one NBC spot with: "Well, kids, if we're good today, General Sarnoff might like us, and if he likes us he'll go to Charles Van Doren and get us more money...
When John Foster Dulles' plane rolled up onto the ramp at Manila's International Airport, a strong wind sent a gust of oil flying from the inboard port engine. It spattered across the welcoming committee of U.S. Admiral Felix Stump, in natty whites, Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, in a white sharkskin suit, a dozen newsmen. Said a bystander: "They suddenly looked like they'd gotten measles...
...flatly refused to sign. "I pledged my allegiance to the United States and to God when I took my citizenship oath in 1932," said he. "Must I then swear loyalty to one of its states, too?" In any case, there were just too many people around "who would chip away at our freedom and make us afraid to voice our belief...