Word: chop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chop down the apple tree you won't have any apple thieves," says Vice Squad Detective James M. Harrigan. Judge Charles W. Halleck made a more practical observation several weeks ago. He ordered that one convicted suburbanite's $148 fine be used to pay rehabilitation expenses for a twice-convicted prostitute who needed tuition for a keypunch operator's course. Said Halleck: "If men find out that they will have to pay to send these ladies of the evening to school, they might quit going out there...
...Robert (Dean Jones), a bachelor of 35. Some of the dilemmas they act out for Robert are common: a drink problem, smoking too much, trying to lose weight-except that New Yorkers have an uncanny flair for self-dramatizing such issues. Some are symbolic: the wife who can karate-chop hell out of her husband. Some are wistfully funny attempts to recapture the old magic: the couple who get stoned on pot but find that marijuana is not really their kick...
...first it's hard, boring work cutting cane. Grab a long, thin stalk with your gloved left hand, chop it in the middle with your machete, snip off the leaves at the top, then bend down and separate the lower half of the cane (where the plant is thickest and there's the most sugar) from the soft earth with a few short flicks of the wrist. Make sure your machete is free of dirt and go to the next stalk...
...Will. Pozzuoli's plight is apparent everywhere. Walls and roofs have cracked. Dozens of buildings have been declared unsafe, including a hospital, a police station and the city hall. The waterfront has risen so far above the Bay of Naples that workmen finally had to chop away huge chunks of the stone wharf before ferries could conveniently dock again. The elegant Roman ruin known as the Temple of Serapide, standing in the midst of a small waterfront lagoon created by ancient sinking, now is higher out of the water than ever before in the memory of Pozzuolians. The hardest...
...pork chop, half dozen eggs...