Word: chop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This failure of leadership ran higher than the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Growled a Seattle lumberman: "As long as Harry does things as usual, then everybody else will do things as usual. Harry said there is no war on, so who's excited enough to go volunteer to chop down a tree for an Army barracks? Nobody, that...
Britons sizzled last week over a 20% government cut in the tiny meat ration. The cut reduces the ration to eightpence (9?) worth a week-about one small lamb chop or a matchbox-sized piece of steak. This is an alltime low-less meat than sweat-&-tears Churchill gave them in the worst days...
...allies can withdraw to Japan whatever they can save from Korea, and continue to fight a declared or undeclared war against Communist China. To do so, the U.S. would concentrate on using its predominant air and sea power to blockade China's vulnerable coastline, chop up its railroads and industries. China's Red bosses, whose power over the people is none too secure, will dread a long war with the U.S., fought on terms which the U.S. is able to dictate...
Having spent four years persuading the American woman to chop her hair close to the scalp, the capricious rulers of fashion (familiarly known as They) were now insisting, of course, that hair had to be longer...
...nation so far seemed to accept this plethora of prosperity and plenty with none of the qualms of conscience which had afflicted it during World War II. Nobody was demanding that men chop the cuffs off their pants, or that women make bandages and adopt a look of austerity. Advertisements for piecrust mix and plumbing plungers made no pretense at all that the product was being gotten out as a reward to "the boys" overseas. There had been no revival of such phrases as "The home front" and "Don't you know there...