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Word: chompers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Making a Crisis in Arkansas | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Death of a Collection | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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