Word: chomper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House announced that Sir Winston Churchill will make an "informal" U.S. visit with Old Friend Dwight Eisenhower next month. The trip was postponed a year ago after Sir Winston came down with pneumonia. Earlier last week Cigar Chomper Churchill, about to fly home to England from the French Riviera, jauntily puffed on a cigarette, a rare indulgence for him, but he was back on big black stogies by the time he reached London Airport...
...shock: a National Guard unit, 150 strong, with MIS, carbines and billies, churned up to the darkened high school in trucks, halftracks and jeeps. They unloaded tear-gas bombs, fixed bayonets, sealed off all doors, and set up a perimeter defense around the grounds-while a red-haired cigar-chomper named Sherman T. Clinger, in the uniform of an Air National Guard major general, took over the principal's office as a command post...
Gladys Lloyd Robinson did not mind seeing the great collection go. Temperamentally, she was "tired of being a curator of an art museum," and she needed the money. But Cigar-Chomper Robinson, who had lovingly brought the paintings together one by one, sounded sad and nostalgic. "My favorites?" he said. "They are all my favorites...