Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chop the old college tie off of the kook that is promoting this Ivy League claptrap and send him west of Pennsylvania for a few months. In this part of the country only the fainthearted who fear being turned down by Rice apply for admission to Harvard, Princeton or Yale. TOM SCOTT Amarillo, Texas...
...took another of his brood off to be baptized, but toward the end of his life took great stock in the Old Testament. He was no scientific bigot and mocked his materialist friend John Tyndall by asking how he could deduce Hamlet from the molecular structure of a mutton chop. He dismissed August Comte's fashionable positivism as "Catholicism without Christianity...
What Macmillan was objecting to was the speedup in the Common Market's plans to lower its internal tariff walls while raising barriers against other traders. A plan before the Common Market already proposes to chop internal tariffs 20% in July instead of the planned 10%; at the same time, external tariffs in West Germany and the Benelux countries, with which Britain does $850 million worth of trade annually, will rise sharply. Macmillan's fear was that the move would only widen the gap between the Common Market and the Outer Seven, divide Europe into two economic camps...
...operator of the cesium clock need only tune his waves until he gets absorption. Then he will know accurately the frequency (i.e., vibrations per second) of his waves, which can be displayed on an oscilloscope and used as reference scale. In effect, the cesium clock permits scientists to chop time into exact fractions of microseconds...
...beautiful harbor to the city. As his launch passed a line of 14 freshly painted naval vessels,* the crews raised their white caps high and gave a traditional Brazilian navy greeting-seven "Vivas." An informal flotilla of small craft trailed in Ike's wake, a swarm of helicopters chop-chopped overhead, and along the seawall a long formation of white-uniformed sailors and officers stood under the blooming mimosa trees, at rigid attention...