Word: chit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he's finally learned to say "about" and "come," Tom Wileaux seems destined for certain success in the social world. Spearling of carcers, Abe Zeleznik could, as someone so quaintly said, in a chit for the janitor's jab if he stayed much longer after Full Studies and Management...
...Radio Berlin, which occasionally reaches Chungking, recently stopped its boasting and has settled for nostalgic U.S. dance records and innocuous chit-chat by a pleasant female voice...
...Hush. Newsmen of the democratic nations, already chafing under censorship and official fumbling of news, had run into more of the same at Cairo. They were barred from news sources by barbed wire, got only prissy chit-chat in place of solid news. But with these restrictions they had no great quarrel. They knew that the safety of the conferees might hang on discreet silence...
...stretching his tiny legs and occasionally breaking into a run, he was able to keep up with the platoon until they arrived at "Topside" to receive their pay. Here he felt slightly out of place, however as he was without the pay chit necessary to obtain funds...
This situation was soon remedied by an officer who improvised a pay chit out of an old envelope. With this slip in hand, the half-pint "officer" waited his turn in line and then strode up and presented it to an amazed disbursing officer...