Word: chop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to the files, found that all the adverse reports had been signed by Comrade Ulbricht. When Moscow decided in 1925 that the German party must be atomized so that it would be utterly obedient to the Kremlin, it was Ulbricht, under the pseudonym Zelle (Cell), who proceeded to chop it into a confusion of small cells. Ulbricht plotted with the Nazis in the 1932 transport strike, which ruined the democratic Social Democrats and helped propel Hitler to power. He was among the first to flee Nazi Germany (although he tampered with his biography later to suggest that...
Family Portrait. In Saskatoon, Sask., the Star-Phoenix carried this want ad: "Carpenter who smokes, drinks, and spits on the floor, 2 children . . . who write on walls and chop up floors, wife no better, desires to rent a house...
...Chop $2.2 billion off Truman's requests for civilian agencies...
Marshal Tito's relations with royalty, never exactly chummy, came to a blunt and seemingly final halt in 1945, when he told young King Peter, in effect, to stay the blazes out of Yugoslavia or he would chop his royal head off. But last week the marshal slipped into his blue and scarlet commander in chief's uniform, stepped into a cocoon of policemen, Scotland Yard agents and Yugoslav bodyguards, and took himself off to Buckingham Palace for lunch with King Peter's distant cousin, Her Majesty Elizabeth...
...effort to be aesthetic as well as amusing, Ivy throws in some unrelated art touches. Some of these like the history of a block of ice from the delivery truck to a glass of tea are fatuous and only chop away at the movie's strongest leg, the script...