Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reaction of the spectators indicates that we are all still more or less barbarians and cannibals. Some onlookers are genuinely dumfounded at the mass mayhem they are seeing, but the majority enjoy themselves mightily, exhorting the contestants to "chop that goalie into little pieces," "rip off his leg if he tries that again," "give him a good one right between the eyes...
...That chop was the beginning, perhaps, of an Economy Congress. Or perhaps it was the fall of a fresh, young, oat-feeling Congress into the trap of a master politician. Franklin Roosevelt certainly did not worry unduly, knowing that in this era of a Permanently Unbalanced Budget, Congress would have a hard time taking his dare to economize generally-on pensions, Social Security, national defense...
...Albert County, 67, may well hold more directorships (121) than any other U. S. businessman, is famed for his judgment of the capital market-he invariably picks the right moment to float bond issues. Last week, after 48 years with the Pennsylvania, he gave up railroading, planned henceforth to chop trees and roam the woods near his Christmas Cove, Me. home...
...only one of their stratagems. For the most part they organize "thieving parties" to carry off rails and telephone poles. Some 200 farmers near Paoting, 90 miles south of Peiping, devote two nights a week to demolition work. In one night they can tear up and hide ten rails, chop down 28 poles...
...Japanese hands the whole British stake in the Far East might have been lost, some ?500,000,000 or more. In case of war German guns already installed within range of Gibraltar might have cut the British lifeline there, and Italy might have used her navy & air force to chop up the same lifeline at Suez and in the Mediterranean, although Mussolini & Franco might have done what Italy did in 1915, change sides for a fancy price to join Britain & France...