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...people were killed in the stampede to get food. At the Austrian Red Cross food-distribution center the food ran out. A thin old man, white stubble on his chin, walked away slowly, looking at his empty bowl. "Give chop? Give chop?" he muttered to nobody in particular...
...real sincere opinion this is a non-political resolution. . . . we will need the assistance of experts in this field. . . . I can tell smoke coming from the Roosevelt Towers and Somerville incinerator, but what do I know about it? All I can think of is to chop down the chimney or something...
Yablonski, who had started in the mines at age 15, once boasted that "Jock Yablonski can go anywhere in the coal fields." After he declared his insurgency, he began to fear for his safety. He was nearly paralyzed with a karate chop on the back of his neck during a campaign appearance in Illinois. "He was in danger from the very date the campaign started," said his son, Chip...
...driving away in empty trucks, unwilling to take the stunted and mis-shapen trees. "I think I'm out of business," Steyer says sadly. Dr. Franklin Custer, the other principal tree grower near Mount Storm, used to cut 10,000 trees a year. This season he expects to chop fewer than 1,000. One scraggly group of trees, only two miles from the belching smokestacks, may well be Custer's last stand on that site...
...well as the beetles; another pesticide named Bidrin sometimes destroys the trees. Frantic elm owners have resorted to such quack remedies as turpentine injections or driving galvanized nails into the trunks (in hopes that the zinc oxide will deter the fungus). So far, the only solution has been to chop down and haul away infected trees, a process that prevents the disease from spreading to healthy elms...