Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfied with winning their independence from France and Spain a year ago, some of Morocco's political leaders are agitating to chip off a slice of northwest Africa roughly the size of Western Europe. The land between Morocco and Senegal is mostly sand, but there are underground riches to be tapped. For the story of the rebel leader who hates the French because he was once denied a tax collector's job, see FOREIGN NEWS, Empire of Sand...
...tiny, flinty chip off the old block, who herself served as Liberal M.P. from the Welsh island of Anglesey for 22 years and as deputy party leader for two, Megan Lloyd George turned Laborite-in 1955, and when taxed about it replied: "I'm a radical, like my father before me. The Liberal Party is no longer the home for radicals." Last week, representing her new party on the hustings for the first time, she was contesting the first Liberal seat to fall vacant since she joined Labor...
...love to hurl the dollar chip...
...Cooperation comes hard at first," says the center's administrator. Herbert Fitzroy. "But once you get everybody thinking cooperatively about one thing, they're talking cooperatively about 18 things." Eventually, four more campuses joined up, and though the center still depends on outside grants, its members* now chip in $42,000 of their own. It is money well spent. "For every dollar we put in," says President George Modlin of the University of Richmond, "we have received at least two or three dollars worth of benefit...
...Potato Chip. Once Mies had demonstrated that a chair's metal frame could be used in place of springs, Finland's Alvar Aalto showed that the same thing could be done with molded plywood. In the U.S., Architect Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames teamed up in 1940 to produce a molded plywood chair that shifted the emphasis to organic shape, form-fitted to the human body. Using molded plastic, Saarinen then developed the idea into his famed "womb" chair; Eames evolved a whole series, ranging from his early hard-surfaced plywood "potato chip" chair to plastic chairs which...