Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fearing the outbreak of renewed violence, hundreds of Ibos last week shuttered their shops in Lagos and crowded into Iddo Motor Park, eating palm-oil chop out of metal bowls and awaiting transportation to take them to the East. Thousands of Ibos fled in cars, mammy wagons and buses over the Niger River Bridge into the East, until Gowon ordered this last remaining road link with the East closed. Then they fled across the river in canoes. All along the swampy and grassy border areas, Ibo soldiers dug into foxholes. In the Eastern towns, however, the mood was ebullient...
...Brinkmanship. The key agreements, hammered out in a crescendo of bluff and brinkmanship between the U.S. and the Common Market last week in Geneva, fell a long way short of John Kennedy's hopes when he persuaded Congress in 1962 to empower the President of the U.S. to chop tariffs by 50%. Though levies on many industrial items would fall by the full 50%, the average tariff cut will amount to no more than 25% on the goods that make up the $180 billion in annual trade among non-Communist countries. Washington figures that the reductions, phased over four...
...fierce headwind sent chop and waves over the riggers of the shells as the race began. Winthrop made a fast get-away, only to be overtaken by Kirkland, which clearly dominated the race thereafter...
...ludicrous with her size-4 feet swimming around in size-6 combat boots. But the little French girl is a tough freelance photographer; and for Americans looking at their front pages last week, her A.P. pictures of Marines headed up 881 North evoked ghosts of Iwo Jima and Pork Chop Hill...
...historical accuracy by having Abigail and her teen-age cronies enter the courtroom knitting (because good girls kept themselves busy in those days), but it creates entirely the wrong mood, because we associate it with the French Revolution and old ladies happily knitting in the grandstands watching the guillotine chop off heads...