Word: chop
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...visible halo, but the stocky, uneducated Chinese woman is a saint to thousands. For 13 years Cheng Chui-ping sold clothes and cheap eats along East Broadway in New York City's Chinatown. During lunch hours she would chop vegetables, wash dishes and wait on tables at a restaurant that served dishes from her native Fujian province. Occasionally she could be seen tottering down the street struggling with bales of clothes, dragging them into her general-merchandise store. But to many she was a veritable goddess, dispensing both mercy and fortune. Her devotees called her Dajie Ping--Big Sister Ping...
...tens of thousands. But then, as MacArthur drove northward toward the Chinese border, dividing his forces in a two-pronged offensive, Mao Zedong's "volunteers" had slipped unseen into the mountains between. Not until July 1953, after more dreadful bloodshed at places like Heartbreak Ridge and Pork Chop Hill, was the present armed truce established...
...took the stage-the ear-piercing screams were a reminder how much a hit single can change a band's audience. Lit seems to have adopted some rock star indulgences-for one thing, they had some really unusual facial hair. Singer A. Jay Popoff sported some gigantic mutton chop sideburns, but compared to his brother, guitarist Jeremy Popoff, he was refreshingly normal-looking. Jeremy's facial hair can only be described as what would happen if Abe Lincoln and a guy from ZZ Top had a child who decided to braid the length of his beard...
...carries a lot less weight in the Republicans' inner councils than it did a few months ago. G.O.P. sources tell TIME that last fall, after Clinton vetoed Congress's $792 billion tax cut, it was pressure from the Bush campaign that helped shut down Republican discussions of whether to chop that tax relief into smaller pieces, pass it in increments and force the President's hand. Now that the Bush campaign has stumbled, lawmakers are far less certain of the Texas Governor's ability to carry everyone over the finish line with him in November--and far less fearful...