Word: chop
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...prow angled high, the speedboat skims across an iridescent lagoon that shivers with wind-whipped chop. Just ahead looms the island city of Malé, bustling capital of the Republic of Maldives, about 400 miles southwest of the southern tip of India. Clearly visible is the low line of motorized dhonis tethered in the harbor, and just beyond the boats, a row of multistory buildings that seem to be floating like a mirage. Exactly where, I find myself wondering, does the sea end and the land begin? For Malé--with its crowded shopping streets, its lively fish market, its gold-domed...
Unger got the No. 9 hitter Jonny Weiss to chop what should have been an inning-ending grounder to third baseman Steffan Wilson, but Wilson’s throw skipped past junior Josh Klimkiewicz at first, scoring Flynn and advancing Weiss to second. A balk, a walk, a passed ball and a pair of hits later, it was 6-0 BC, and the Crimson could never recover...
...news stories suggested a loss of color from his face, but here again the evaluation of fading hues would require the eye of a Michelangelo. He is still ruddy, but perhaps not as ruddy as he would have been had he gone to his ranch in California to chop wood. Hoarseness from the tube in his throat? He certainly sounded hoarse when he appeared on TV with the President of China, but now, at ease in his office, it would take an ear with perfect pitch to detect a problem. If anything, he seems more alert than he normally...
Florida State made it on for inventing the crowd-rousing and at-times maddening Tomahawk Chop...
...simply just shouts of “You suck” with a modicum of truth behind them—I’m glad GQ has decided that they’re on the level of the racial and cultural oppression invoked with every swing of the Tomahawk Chop...