Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guys and good guys are easy to tell apart. The bad guys, everybody knows, are local TV stations that try to pass off cartoon shows like G.I. Joe and The Jetsons as "educational." The good guys are kindly kids' show hosts like Shari Lewis, who brought her puppet Lamb Chop to Washington last week to help plead for better children's programming. "We need the best you grownups have to offer," the sock puppet testified before a House subcommittee. "If you give it to us, we will give the good stuff back...
Except for the initial chanting, our vegan delights (cheese and eggs were optional) were taken in complete silence. "Clappers" directed our actions, while we placed our bowls side by side, aligning our chop sticks 30 degrees (I kid not) from the table's edge--tips out. With a bow or a hand signal, we took the food sliding down the table. This had to be devoured in all haste, because slow eating is indulgence...
...what he actually does, which is to tell the NNEAAH exactly what he was thinking, writing, feeling and doing during the roughly 2 1/2 years in question. And he lets his interrogators know, early on, that he wants to do it his own way: "((Retrospect editors: Don't chop up my paragraphs into mechanical 10-line lengths. I am taking your symposium seriously, and some thoughts will run long as rivers in thaw, and others will snap off like icicles. Let me do the snapping, please...
Come to think of it, I'd rather have you throw me into the Charles River on a frigid February morning than chop the last five letters off my first name...
...Ignatiev is really interested in starting a debate on church and state, then he should find a better issue than the pork chop versus the pizza bagel. Doesn't tutor in History and Literature and a non-resident house tutor have better things to do with his time...