Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regaled his fellow P.W.s with a running commentary-"Now they're peeling off to come in! God, it's lovely! Now the first one is leveling off!" During one of those raids he broke out of his boxcar and escaped to rejoin his unit. Only damage: a chip in the gold and amber ring he still wears, bearing the personal seal of Grandfather John...
Like two huskies spoiling for a fight, Bethlehem Steel and the Justice Department have been circling each other for more than two years, each one daring the other to knock the chip off its shoulder. Last week both chips were knocked off. Fulfilling one of his dreams, 80-year-old Bethlehem Chairman Eugene G. Grace joined Youngstown Chairman James L. Mauthe in announcing a merger agreement between Beth Steel, second biggest
...invasion of Hungary is World War III. To suppose that the West could chip away at Russia without fighting a World War is as absurd as believing that the United States would allow Russia to invade New England without resisting by an all out war effort...
...small chip off a great old oaken block, Sir Winston Churchill's only son Randolph is one of Fleet Street's masters of the art of abuse, especially when he chooses the British press as a target...
...excavations, the presence of the ash cavities is detected by cautiously tapping the ground with blunted pickaxes. When the excavators spot a hollow, they drill several holes through the stratum of ash, pour thinned plaster of Paris into the cavity. After allowing the plaster time to harden, workers can chip away the surrounding ash to uncover a cast of the eruption victim...