Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China, they have no chop suey; in Italy, you have to hunt to find a pizza with mushrooms; in Wales, a Welsh rabbit is only a rabbit; in Turkey, there are no turkeys; in Daiquiri (Cuba), it is almost impossible to find a daiquiri; India ink is made in China or Japan; in Spain, there is no Spanish rice...
Tommy & the Deluge. The battleground was the annual college draft, and pro football's version of Pork Chop Hill was Tommy Nobis, a 230-lb. All-America linebacker from Texas whose collar size (19½) alone was enough to make both leagues reach for their checkbooks. Tommy was drafted No. 1 by both the N.F.L.'s newly franchised Atlanta Falcons and the A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers. With no coach, no schedule, no training camp and no plays, the Falcons apparently had nothing to offer Nobis except money: by last week they had already sold...
...young Republican urged his audiences to take their destiny out of the hands of the arrogant Democratic machine that had fed on the city for 20 years. In synagogues and soda fountains, from the scabrous tenements of Harlem to the polluted beaches of Sheepshead Bay, between blintzes and pizza, chop suey, knishes, pretzels and foot-longs, he remonstrated...
...learned to control the sharp burin as it plowed ornamental-and indelible-lines across the rich metal. At 15, he got his father's permission to study art, and he turned his point to image making. Even before his death in 1528, Dürer's chop M., a reminder of his goldsmith's training, was known across Europe. To show the full range of his accomplishment, 150 drawings by him and his contemporaries have been assembled from the State Museum in Berlin by the Smithsonian Institution.* They show that Dürer almost singlehanded brought...
...Kiernan withdraws aid, Collins would be forced to put the screws on the School Committee to comply with the law. Collins's first economy as mayor was to chop a couple of million off the school budget, and he needs every cant he can get. Furthermore, he can't risk siding with Mrs. Hicks on the racial issue if he wants to win a statewide election...