Word: chop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock and supplies nearly all the funds), declared that "no more money will be advanced to Naha city because of the changed situation," and froze payment of a $666,000 installment on Naha's reconstruction program. Explained Tomihara blandly: "Americans did not order me to chop off Naha's credit. I am doing so because Senaga in his campaign speeches said that if elected he would refuse all U.S. aid. You do not lend money to a man who has said he will never touch...
...equipment costs are so steep that some truckers are thus able to snip as much as 9? per mile from their 30?-per-mile highway costs. By going piggyback, says the Rail-Trailer Co., which solicits business for the railroads, one New York-Chicago trucker was able to chop his trip costs so much that his profit margin quintupled. Eastern Motor Express, Cooper-Jarrett, Mid-States Freight Lines, Spector Freight System, and Denver Chicago Trucking Co. currently use piggyback for some 10% to 20% of all their long-haul trips. Kansas City's Riss & Co., one of the biggest...
...diplomatic game of foxes and lions to maneuver themselves out of a jam. Not very many days before, Britain's bombers had, to Washington's astonishment, flown off to bomb Egypt, but now Britain's diplomats, unabashed and socially impeccable, and the French, provocative and chop-logical, were talking elliptically about how the alliance was coming back together again and was certainly the most important thing in the world: "Let us frankly admit there have been disagreements...
...Question. To hold the hill meant shielding the Eighth Army's thin defense line. The brass decided that Pork Chop was worth the price. For three days and two nights, a succession of rifle companies of the U.S. 7th Division slogged into the meat-grinder to counter waves of Chinese reinforcements. Battling for Pork Chop's shattered trenches and bunkers, some 900 Americans and South Koreans were killed or wounded, along with 3,000 Chinese. In 48 hours some 85,000 U.S. artillery rounds, plus uncounted enemy shells, blasted Pork Chop's eroded slopes -a display...
Watching the night flares burst above the fighting was one veteran observer of battle who had seen The Peculiar War from the start. In Pork Chop Hill, Detroit Newsman S.L.A. (for Samuel Lyman Atwood) Marshall, 56, again proves his talent for dramatizing the down-to-mud reality of the average American's experience in combat. His newest book puts the microscope to a phase of combat little known to the U.S. public: the painful, drawn-out stalemate (1952-53) that anti-climaxed the Korean war. "One funda mental question," says Marshall in his preface, "in Korea...