Word: chop-chopped
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...Time fof Chop-Chop. A million candles etch the initials P. and C. against the night sky of Cincinnatus' home town. On the ride to the scaffold, bouquets of flowers pelt P.'s and C.'s open car. The whole vulgar holiday is surrounded by rules and rituals of elaborate illogic. Finally, the moment nears "to do chop-chop," as M'sieur Pierre puts it childishly; and childishly, too, the prisoner seeks to save his last shred of self-respect as he mutters: "By myself, by myself." Author Nabokov saves a climactic...
...brass band avoided the mortar-crumpled south gate and the shattered railway station where, on Children's Day as on all other days, the abandoned, the homeless, the orphans prowled restlessly, begging, stealing, conniving to stay alive. They screamed "chop-chop" (food) at G.I.s, hovered hungrily around the soldiers who uncomfortably ate their rations...
Only three numbers were impressive. They were "Chop-Chop" featuring a beautiful clarinet solo by Eari Bostic, Dinah Washington's rendition of Ellington's "Concerto for Cootie' now retitled "Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me," and Hampton's superb vibraphone work ably backed by the Symphony strings on "Moonglow." There is no denying Lionel's artistry on this instrument and it is unfortunate that he neglected it most of the evening in favor of one finger piano solos and noisy drum exhibitions...
Chinese 3a and 3b meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 1:30 o'clock. They are getting sick of being pestered with queries as to whether the class consists of a bowl of chop suey eaten chop-chop (quickly) with chop sticks or whether they don't eat at all. It is just another example of New England's smugness that they don't realize that at that time here it is 1:00 to 2:30 o'clock in the morning in China, and that they are asleep at that time...