Word: chop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Submarines will largely replace the capital ship, now rendered obsolete according to Morison by the invention of guided missiles which can chop them to pieces before they are within striking distance of the target. Bikini tests were also cited by Morison as proof of the effectiveness of atomic attacks on surface vessels...
...Lamb Chop. He kept Congress in an uproar. He railed against Andrew Volstead and his dry law, once concocted home brew in a Harlem drugstore in a fruitless attempt to get himself arrested. During a speech on high prices, he waved a lamb chop at his congressional colleagues. He helped write the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which banned "yellow-dog" labor contracts and strikebreaking by injunction...
...right-handed hitter, Jackie has a habit of swinging too soon and his motion is half chop, 'half lunge. As a result, he fouls off a lot of balls to the left. But his batting average at week's end was a solid .301. The wise boys who judge a hitter by his Runs Batted In totals are apt to take too fast a look at Jackie's R.B.I, and grumble that Jackie can't hit in a tight spot. But as the club's No. 2 hitter in the lineup, Jackie...
That night-July 4- was no night for Sunday seamen. The schooner Morning Star radioed to shore: "Heavy swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...
...steel wheel 3½ inches in diameter, with 80 square teeth around its edge. It spins against a thick steel disc drilled with 80 small holes arranged in a circle to match the 80 teeth. Compressed air rushes through these holes. When the wheel revolves, its teeth chop the air into pulses; each pulse becomes a sound wave...