Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faced with government-owned Trans-Canada's decision, privately owned Canadian Pacific had no choice except to go along. Neither have the U.S. lines-including American, Eastern and United-that compete with TCA on routes between the two countries. Though U.S. carriers complain that TCA can chop fares only because it has government support, U.S. lines will probably have to follow suit to stay competitive (See BUSINESS). Bound to suffer: Canada's railroads, which already lose money on their cross-continent runs (one-way tourist fare, including a berth but no meals or extras: $115.40). TCA Boss McGregor...
After driving 2,000 miles across Russia from Leningrad to Uzhgorod, they tried to cross the border into Czechoslovakia at Chop. There, Russian border police told them that they were in an area closed to tourists. After spotting a camera, guards seized Kaminsky's films and had them developed. They showed pictures of radar installations, military work gangs, radio antennas, railroad stations, airfields and heavy industrial installations, along with a notebook and map minutely keying the location of each picture. Kaminsky's explanation: he planned to write a book on the theme, "How Russians talk about peace...
Burke also added some final, verbal instructions: "Red, there are chop points to this program. Any time it looks as though you're batting your head against a technological wall-if you see the job isn't technically feasible-it will be cut off dead...
Compared to such models, the American Shakespearean actor is short on breath, long on Method and nil on tradition, despite the dimly remembered glories of Booth and Barrymore. Too many U.S. actors either singsong like walking metronomes or chop up the lines and speak blank prose. As for acting, Method-mad U.S. actors swallow a character like medicine and then release him through their pores in involuntary shudders. They are nonetheless eager to try the roles that all agree are the touchstones of an actor's skill and imagination. What is needed is the continuity of acting tradition that...
...experienced ax man will tell you, if Floyd Patterson doesn't handle his right hand more sophistically on June 20 than he docs in his wood-chopping exhibition, Ingemar "will chop him down again...