Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he was called on for a toast, U.S. Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen raised his glass to "justice." Soon afterward Deputy Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov, the only Red army marshal never invited by the party leaders to lead the Red army parade, was asked for a toast. He announced that he would go along with Bohlen's toast. "What's the matter, Zhukov?" taunted Partyman Mikoyan, "can't you think up a toast of your own?" The marshal glared at Policeman Beria's friend. "I repeat," he said, "I wish to support the toast to justice...
...first it was hostile. The day after the President spoke in the U.N. General Assembly, Moscow radio said: "Eisenhower threatened atomic war." Then the men in the Kremlin apparently decided to reconsider. Three days later Moscow radio announced that Foreign Minister Molotov had already assured U.S. Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen that Russia will give "serious attention" to the U.S. plan...
...policy of friendliness toward the U.S. Buenos Aires was at first disappointed that the report did not directly mention Argentina's changed attitude. But Argentines could take consolation in the fact that U.S. business was now showing marked interest in economic cooperation, and that representatives of blue-chip U.S. firms have been flocking into Buenos Aires of late to look over prospects for capital investment...
...town of Tuxtla Gutierrez, where the race started, stared in wonder at the invasion. The palm-fringed streets swarmed with the heterogeneous spawn of the automotive age-sleek Ferraris and squat reef Lancias, souped-up Chryslers and Lincolns and Oldsmobiles, petite Porsches, souped-up Fords. Such blue-chip entries as the Lancias even had their own mobile garage to follow them, a huge trailer complete with machine shop and dormitory...
...Adams, House Ice Cream Derby heads round the last turn today, a black horse, chocolate chip, has forged ahead of the favorites--chocolate and vanilla--and seems an almost certain winner...