Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once "protested vigorously" through Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen that Father Bissonnette's expulsion was a violation of the 1933 agreement and was "in no way related to cases of temporary visits" like that of Metropolitan Boris. In Moscow Father Bissonnette sadly said a last Mass in his apartment for 20-odd members of his flock. He advised them to turn for spiritual guidance to the Russian priest of the Church of St. Louis, Moscow's only Roman Catholic Church. Said Father Bissonnette: "If you do not speak Russian or Polish and have trouble with the language, just...
Premier Papagos' government has been slow in working out plans. U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon has kept an anxious eye on the situation, and Washington has been urged to absorb as many of the repatriates as possible under the Greek quota (17,000 a year), and to chip in with money if the Greek government can figure out a workable plan...
...professed love for his wife-despite her frigidity and his infidelity-and for their son "Chip," 7. "I didn't do it," he insisted. "I couldn't do it to any animal or any human. I couldn't have possibly done such a thing." The jurors took up their task in a locked room, crowded with a table, twelve wooden chairs and 214 court exhibits, some ugly with blood. For five days the seven men and five women-all had been married and one was a college graduate-debated the evidence. They dismissed the legal oratory...
When it appears that Doris and Gig will make happy music together, bird-like Frank Sinatra shows up wearing a chip on his shoulder. Frankie, a saloon pianist and musical arranger, is on his uppers. "They," he says, looking up at the ceiling from where the Fates guide his misery, have never given him a break...
...play a large part in art collecting, the Manhattan market, caters increasingly to middle-income buyers who collect little-known artists for sheer, not sneer, enjoyment. Since a layman's taste is apt to be better than he imagines, such independent collectors may find themselves possessing the blue-chip pictures of a future market. The blue chips of the School of Paris have now climbed sky-high in price, may or may not go higher. Last month Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art paid $20,500 for a Soutine landscape that sold at only $2,500 nine years...