Word: chop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jagger worked the hardest of all to play off the American traditions and create something new. Listen to the first Stones single, a standard Berry track called "Come On," and you can pick up the taunting combination of Cockney chop and Southern drawl--both self-consciously nurtured--which the singer has toyed with since then...
...expressions as "Gol-ly!" and "Ba-by Doll!" Blackmur's wife Helen kept Princeton abuzz with gossip because she so openly scorned the role of faculty wife. When her husband told her that he had invited T.S. Eliot to dinner, she said, "Tell him to bring his own chop." During an erratic ride to a local restaurant, Edmund Wilson criticized the driving of Allen Tate: "Thank you uh uh, thank you Allen for uh for uh for an interesting and hazardous experiment in uh what it's like to drive on the wrong side of the road...
With his usual fervor, Texan John Connally spouted some of the same heresy on a recent visit to Washington. Connally, who was once Secretary of the Navy, would chop $10 billion from the defense budget, and then use that cut as a club to get Congress to hold down the entitlement programs that mainly benefit the middle class and will be responsible for a big chunk of the new deficits. Break the old constraints, Connally pleaded, or soon it will be too late...
Acker still hopes to pull Pan Am out of its tailspin. The airline may begin subleasing its office space in the Pan Am Building and is considering moving its headquarters to Miami or some other city, where costs are lower. It may also chop more employees from its payroll; it has already let go 4,000, leaving 30,000, and cut salaries 10% across the board. Finally, Pan Am is trying to sell two of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets, although finding buyers is tough. Insists Acker: "We have over $200 million in cash. We are a long, long...
...colleagues burst inside. In the hallway they encountered Giovanni Ciucci, 32, a Red Brigades member, who had heard the key turn in the lock and was rushing, pistol in hand, to investigate. Before he had a chance to fire, one of the leatherheads knocked him flat with a karate chop, and the others scrambled down the hallway...