Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening gong at 10 a.m., the arena-like floor of the New York Stock Exchange was in turmoil; 2,000 brokers, clerks and messengers milled around the 18 trading posts. Many stocks that were not widely traded opened on schedule. But for many of the popular blue-chip stocks, which have led the bull market rise, an opening was impossible. About each post gathered knots of worried men anxiously awaiting buyers for the thousands of shares of stock they had orders to sell. At the center of the hubbub were the specialists who handle the stocks-some dealing...
Nasser does not look like a man with a chip on his shoulder. He carries 200 Ibs. with the lithe grace of a big, handsome All-America fullback. His wiry, close-cropped hair is greying at the temples and thinning just above the forehead, where there is a faint scar made by a police club. He has a big, slightly hooked nose and a close-trimmed black mustache, a row of regular, white teeth and a brilliant, easy smile. His eyes are piercing and brown, and he talks quietly, gently, and has never been known to raise his voice...
...chip-on-the-shoulder tradition was shared by Thurgood's father, Will, a dining-car worker on the B. & O. and later steward of Baltimore clubs, including the Gibson Island club, a yachtsman's paradise with jellyfish for serpents. Will, light-skinned and blue-eyed, used to tell Thurgood and his brother Aubrey, "If anyone calls you nigger, you not only got my permission to fight him-you got my orders to fight him." Once, Thurgood followed orders. Delivery boy for a hat store, he was trying to board a trolley with a stack of hats so high...
...well-read intellectual with an abiding faith in "the common reader" ("They're good enough to elect our Presidents, aren't they?"). Although he is a highly sensitive member of a religious minority, he is one of the few living U.S. writers who carries no chip on his shoulder and who gives the U.S. straight A's in his fictional report cards...
...time matching competitions, the powerful chiefs evolved a special blue chip: a sheet of copper valued at hundreds or even thousands of blankets. In one fiercely contested potlatch, the tribal chiefs ganged up to best an upstart brave who had grown rich trading with the whites. It took three coppers with a total value of 39,000 blankets to finally "flatten" the brave...