Word: chopping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon in Constitution Square. At eve he sought the new Dictator-with and against whom he has plotted many times-presented a petition signed by many a rabble scrawl demanding the formation of a Coalition Cabinet. This demand, already fructifying in other brains, led to a congress of chop, swap and barter between a spoil-ravenous group of military and naval adventurers and numerous former Premiers (Kafandaris, Papanastasion, Michalakopoulos, etc.). For a time anarchy loomed. Eventually General Kondylis, mixing bluster with serpentine intrigue was able to form what he called "a business cabinet." The "recalled" President of the Hellenic Republic...
...have paid much attention to the city of Butte straggling up the mountain sides, where by day mine mouths stare like blackened cataracts on the human eye, and by night lights glare coldly. In Butte there are good homes and business blocks. But for the most part the dwellings, chop houses, onetime honky-tonks, have a temporary air, a helter-skelter appearance derived perhaps from the mining camp tradition...
...Chop" is pidgin-English for "quick." The Chinese call these implements kwaitsze, literally "the quick ones." The etiquette governing their use is elaborate. To lay them crossed upon the bowl is a sign that one wishes to leave the table. During a period of mourning chopsticks are usually put away, and the mourners eat with their fingers...
...handsome white beard becomes him well, and he walks with the erect alertness of a man in good health He still retains all of his old dignity. It is ridiculous to picture him as 'the woodsman of Doom.' He is not the sort of man to chop down trees...
...champion had not had occasion to deal with that chop-stroke for some time. The sort of men who make their bread and butter by betting on mud-horses* were ready to wager that it would bother him. It is true that Tilden has a chop-stroke which-although he does not often use it-is fully the equal of Johnson's; true also that he is equipped with a drive, service, volley, far superior to his opponent's. These things could not have prevented the unexpected from happening-had other causes made the unexpected inevitable. Since...