Word: chopping
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...island, on a point of land called West Chop, some of the homes have been in the same family for generations. Such luminaries as Katharine Cornell, James Cagney, Thomas Hart Benton, Leonard Bernstein and Lillian Hellman have long summered among the island's rolling moors and scrub pine. Small cottages rent for from $100 to $150 for each person per week during the season, and better furnished or better located houses run considerably higher. One lucky schoolteacher who pays $135 a month for the house during the winter months sublets it for $1,000 a month during the summer...
...canvas. The pursuit grew slower and slower, stopped altogether when Clay unloaded a solid right to Listen's head. Straining to reach Cassius with a left hook, Listen bent forward and swung. From somewhere in the general direction of his right hip, Clay flicked a right-hand chop that traveled no more than a foot to the side of Sonny's head. Listen sank to the canvas, rolled over onto his back, struggled to his knees, and went down again...
...flattened Liston, he insisted, was his secret "anchor punch"-so named because it anchors opponents to the floor. The punch was taught to him by a darkface comedian named Stepin Fetchit, who learned it from Jack Johnson, first of the great Negro champions. Said Clay: "It's a chop, so fast you can't see it. It's karate. It's got a twist to it. Just one does...
...mountain of pasta; one cannot see through her to the mythic past. There is bougainvillaea, and weeping willow, and a century of wounded Southern pride in the prose arias that Tennessee Williams gave the role; all one hears in Miss Stapleton's voice is the jagged, chop-chop talk of a tenement mother. The garrulity is present but not the gallantry...
Straightening up, the visitor cupped his hand slightly and delivered the forward chop of his arm that is his symbol. "Adelante," he said. Forward...