Word: choppering
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...Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...
...youngish man with a flashy smile and a broken accent, Bengamin Gayelord Hauser, "food adviser" to many a movie star, cut up fruits & vegetables, stuffed them into an electric chopper, quaffed the juice as he delivered the kind of message that makes M.D.s shudder. Samples...
...Wild Geese Calling" is Hollywood's version of Stewart Edward White's version of the Northland's version of California's Okic, without Steinbeck touches. Henry Fonda plays the part of the itinerant tree-chopper-downer, but his dreaminess is far less appropriate than it was in the character of Tom Joad. Nor is he helped by one of the slowest and feeblest scripts ever devised. The picture, though it contains eye-filling shots of geese flying north and south, quite fails to put across its theme of the strong man in conflict with nature. Much of the fault...
...ahead Kidwell had spotted trouble. Cutrupi was off his motorcycle again with his "chopper." Soon the men in the halted tanks heard rifle fire, saw Cutrupi surrounded by riflemen. An umpire's flag waved and an officer walked down the road. Kidwell's tank was out, he ruled, but Kidwell was no casualty. Down the road ran the tank commander to the rest of his command, still back of the trees. "Where are you going?" asked a newsman. "I'm going to get some more tanks and knock hell out of 'em," he grinned...
...Garners eat dinner at noon in Uvalde-Mr. Garner snapped his chopper-chin up & down on 44 words...