Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Stalin's death was proclaimed, the world learned the name of his successor: Georgy Malenkov, gross and flaccid in appearance but in fact a chip off the same granite block. For the moment, there was no sign of quarreling among the pallbearers. While the new regime dug in, the rest of the world might get a breathing spell, But the death of Stalin itself did not change any fact of geography, economics or ambition; it did not destroy a single Soviet regiment nor ground a single MIG, nor stop a single...
...Building of Brotherhood. As these samples show, Author de Beauvoir knows how to take a bead on a man and bring him down like a sack of hypocrisy. More's the pity that she writes pages of nonsensical epitaphs over her bleeding targets. The chip on her shoulder makes her believe that every man is as autocratic as a Turk and every female as malleable as a slave. Many of her protestations would strike even the inmates of a harem as being behind the times...
...Charles Eustis ("Chip") Bohlen, 48, departmental counselor, to be Ambassador to the Soviet Union. A Russian-speaking specialist in Soviet affairs, he did three tours of duty in Moscow between 1934 and 1944, was Franklin Roosevelt's interpreter at Teheran and Yalta, Harry Truman's at Potsdam. Before Bohlen, or anyone else, takes over as the new U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, the Administration will have to decide what to do about the Soviet government's unceremonious booting of former Ambassador George (Containment) Kennan, declared persona non grata last October...
...best player and biggest draw in women's golf, Babe stopped wearing a chip on her shoulder. Instead of greeting all rivals with, "Yep, I'm gonna beat you," she began encouraging the younger girls on the circuit and established a working friendship with the older ones. When George is not traveling the circuit with her, she often rooms with Patty Berg, who has been her chief adversary for years...
...figure out the best shaft for me, and I believe I finally have it.'' A better explanation is his own steady game, carefully modeled on the best points of the past masters: the booming woods of Sam Snead, the deadly accurate putts of Harry Cooper, the chip-and-pitch artistry of Johnny Revolta, the long irons of older brother Ray Mangrum...