Word: chop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hacked down at many street corners to improve vision and was fiercely attacked by ladies of the city's garden clubs. He explained: Ladies, when we trimmed the petticoats ott those old spruces, we saw some of the funniest limbs in all Denver. Modesty alone dictates that we chop them down. . . " The ladies were not amused...
GOVERNMENTAL EFFICIENCY. Government probably is giving the taxpayer nowhere near his money's worth. Eisenhower's administration is going to have to chop, prune and reorganize...
...They brought him back to camp four summers in a row-carefully salted and sugared his food at mess table, described to him what went on at campfire, patiently taught him (by touch) to row a boat and chop a log." Eventually, Alan Wylie passed all his tests. "The last time I saw [him] was the night a representative of the National Council presented him with the Scout Life Guard emblem. The boy's . . . face was transfigured, and the rest of us felt somehow transfigured...
Striking from the great morose forests of the Aberdare Range, Mau Mau terrorists last week hacked an elderly Briton to pieces as he sat in his evening tub. A quick chop of the pangas and all his fingers were gone. In the port of Mombasa, supposedly awed by the guns of a British cruiser, a British marine was stabbed...
...front of the governor's car waved his official flag: two crossed pangas (broad-bladed African knives used to chop bananas). The pangas seemed symbolic last week, for Kenya Colony, the brightest jewel in Britain's East African Empire, is bleeding badly in a panga...