Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Manhattan heard a new chip off the old Bloch, his String Quartet No. 3. It had much of the modernist vigor audiences have come to expect from Ernest Bloch, but listeners also caught a new air of mellowness and reflection...
Booster Station. In Harewood, England, finding too much money in a telephone call box, Telephone Company Employee Mary Throup tracked down an elderly lady who admitted that she always put loose change into the box because "the poor telephone girls don't get much money, you know." Chip & Old Block. In Bloomingburg, N.Y., after Francis Van Winkle sold his father's farm machinery for $275 and left home without telling him, he was turned over to the police when he crawled into bed, discovered that his father had sold the house without telling...
...Annapolis last month, or at Cambridge just a few days ago, the humbl fare of the Yale dining halls seems shockingly inferior in both quantity and quality. All that we had seen at Annapolis steaming, platers sticked high with chicken halves, soup fuveens full of chocolate chip ice cream, pitchers overflowing with milk all remained vivid in our minds as we retreated back across the Vistula. And by the banks of the Charles our far-famed social franquility went to the winds as we gorged like men half starved on salad pilled high with thousand island dressing, reast beef...
...book is obviously a lightly edited version of King's own autobiographical notes (they should have been edited drastically), though King refers to himself aloofly in the third person. The effect is like the royal "we." Only in an epilogue and incidental notes does Collaborator Whitehill manage to chip off the dapple paint and reveal the metal beneath...
Last spring ten nations (Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, France, West Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Yugoslavia) organized CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) and agreed to chip in for a nuclear research center. Continental Europe has plenty of big scientific brains, but no big apparatus...