Word: chop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-known labels. In fact, many house brands are produced by name-brand food companies. Also, pass up "instant foods" that take less time to prepare but are usually more expensive than their inconvenient alternatives. By buying house brands and avoiding convenience foods, a typical middle-income family could chop $350 off its annual food budget...
...only to take advantage of daily specials. Shop on a full stomach. Reweigh all prepackaged meats on the scales that many supermarkets provide. Visit the reduced-for-quick-sale table, especially on Saturday. The New York City department of consumer affairs estimates that a combination of these precautions can chop 10% off a food budget, which could save as much as $350 a year for a middle-income family...
Three coaches, including Vermont's Chop LaCasse, were not allowed into the banquet because they did not have tickets. It seems last year a number of rowdies snuck in for some free roast beef. This year every member of the Harvard team had tickets. Plead as they might, the three coaches could not get in. Disgusted with his third place finish, LaCasse took the other coaches out for a night on the town. They had three Harvey Wallbangers each at Mr. Up's in Middlebury, then repaired to LaCasse's favorite bar in Burlington. After that, the finished...
...read the comments offered by the liberal and crypto-liberal television, newspaper and newsmagazine reporters, savoring every rumor, fact, suspicion and information from a reliable source with regard to the dilemma faced by the present Administration, it occurs to me that there has not been this much anticipatory chop licking since Daniel spent an uncomfortable afternoon in the lions...
Traveling by means other than a car was no joyride, either. Airlines, struggling to stay within new fuel allocation, have canceled 1,000 of their 13,000 daily scheduled flights within the U.S. and will chop many more after the first of the year. Travelers are turning back to the railroads in such numbers that trains are jammed...