Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert F. Love . . . has bombastically suggested that we who do not want Mr. Truman for President for another term should chip in $1 and buy him a haberdashery store. . . I'll bet Mr. Love could have cracked some side-splitting jokes about Lincoln's background, had he been a pundit of that...
...problems, has not attacked segregation. He has concentrated on building up respect between races and between religions. At 44-year-old Editor Carter's urging, Greenville Protestants and Catholics helped build a new synagogue for the Jews. Then he started a campaign to have the Jews and Protestants chip in for a new Catholic school. Moreover, he has made tolerance plus live-wire journalism pay: the Delta Democrat-Times nets some $75,000 a year on a gross of about...
...Gootenberg '49, spokesman for the American Veterans Committee, said: "As anti-communists, we are especially concerned that communism be fought without hurting our civil rights. Civil rights are America's greatest strength." He thought that the proposed bill would "chip away these civil liberties...
...Negro's piled-up resentment against the experience of white discrimination. It is also, just as surely, an American success story. It is often vulgar to the point of endangering sympathy for its narrator. It is crudely ghost-written in a mixture of Broadway pressagentry, dubious religiosity and chip-on-shoulder sensationalism. It also has a final ring of truth that may account for its being a March selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...become a no-nonsense businessman. He had built up a string of eleven newspapers and a radio chain reaching to the West Coast. Later, he trimmed to an easily manageable five papers (at Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas; Atchison Kans.), two radio stations, and a deposit box full of blue-chip stocks...