Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as part of the Communist "peace offensive," the U.S. newsmen got some good news. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen told them that the Communists had finally agreed to grant exit visas to Gilmore's wife and two children, along with the families of two other Americans working for the U.S. in Moscow. Bohlen added that the Russians were also considering granting visas to the families of Gilmore's A.P. partner, Tom Whitney, and U.P.'s Henry Shapiro. Once the families were out of Russia, one of the big pressures that U.S. correspondents have been subject to would...
Round Two. Still wearing the sweater, Ben shot a par 72 on the second round and watched his leading margin narrow to two strokes as Sam Snead, sinking a chip shot on the 18th, fired a 69. Facing two tough rounds the next day, Ben announced, "I feel better than a year ago, and I'm not tired." How about his chances? He was still cautious: "Anyone within ten strokes of me now may be able...
...When trouble came over confirmation of Charles ("Chip") Bohlen as Ambassador to Russia, Ike's choice was cleared by this investigating team...
Split Second (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) seems to be a dramatic chip off Robert Sherwood's 1935 play, The Petrified Forest. It tells of a desperado who holds a group of strangers at gunpoint mercy, but it adds an up-to-date plot switch: the action takes place in a Nevada ghost town located in a restricted testing-ground area where an atom bomb is about...
...Chip by chip, the rugged Derry granite was knocked off his shoulder...