Word: chop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When it gets cold we'll get a sack of oysters, put some sweet potatoes on the potbelly stove, and put a nice tape on - Willie Nelson, something like that -and then we chop and carve. That's where it's at. It's being happy." Brunet advised not to strive for winning ribbons; rather, he said, strive to please yourself - something he apparently has accomplished. "I say, when I carve a pintail drake, you can set music to it. Everything swings...
...World Bank and the IMF, Argentina pledged to clamp down on its money supply and credit, push up interest rates (currently 15.5% for deposits) in order to encourage savings, slow inflation, and stem the outflow of money from the country. Argentina also said it would try to chop the deficit in the biggest areas of public-sector spending from its level of 11.4% of gross domestic product in 1983, to 8.1% this year and down to 5.4% in 1985. In addition, Argentina indicated that it will take action to hold down wage increases, but the deal's language...
...pagan rites; Old World myths are superimposed on the present. There are elegiac hallucinations of the past and an up-to-date orgy, a perky sketch of a bare female torso, and batty headlines, such as PIGS ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM, OUTLAW DECIDES: SOUL IS A PORK CHOP, HE DISCOVERS...
...After 30 years of marriage, I felt like a truss in a drugstore window." You think that's-overstated? Let me tell you what it's like to be a working mother, "racing around the kitchen in a pair of bedroom slippers, trying to quick-thaw a chop under each armpit . . ." Shared responsibilities? "Transporting children is my husband's 26th favorite thing; it comes somewhere between eating lunch in a tearoom and dropping a bowling ball on his foot." Listen, let me tell...
...James Timothy Hoffman, the Government informant who helped orchestrate the video taped hotel-room negotiations in October 1982 that are key to the Government's charges against De Lorean. Defense Lawyer Howard Weitzman, having rattled a previous Government witness, predicted confidently, "I'm going to chop Hoffman up into little pieces...