Word: chopping
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...Sevastopol the Red meat grinder continued to chop up the remnants of the Crimean garrison. At sea, Vice Admiral F. S. Oktyabrsky's fleet waited for and attacked Axis ships as they tried to slip out for a desperate dash to Rumania, (last week's toll: 18 large vessels...
...nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle Vue Edward VII, for two). The management hastily dropped Le Coq, substituted a $10 veal chop...
Only three numbers were impressive. They were "Chop-Chop" featuring a beautiful clarinet solo by Eari Bostic, Dinah Washington's rendition of Ellington's "Concerto for Cootie' now retitled "Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me," and Hampton's superb vibraphone work ably backed by the Symphony strings on "Moonglow." There is no denying Lionel's artistry on this instrument and it is unfortunate that he neglected it most of the evening in favor of one finger piano solos and noisy drum exhibitions...
...heavy underwear. He likes to eat in Gus Popupolis' restaurant, whose sign reads: WHERE GREEK FEEDS GREEK. Hackberry has annual huntin', shootin' and bird-dog competitions. When there's a wood-cutting contest the Hackberry Courier likes to announce that "Mr. Polecat Crittenton . . . offers to chop his fiancee against any entrants. . . ." The people of Hackberry are shrewd, but reasonable...
...children. About three weeks ago my wife said: 'Well, Dad, I went to the butcher and look what I bought for $3.45.' Well, I looked at it, and this is what was there: About a pound and a quarter of a cutlet, about a pound of chop meat, and a little piece of pork which we would say after you trim the fat off it, if it comes to a snowball you have a lot of meat. Now that dinner had to last us Saturday and Sunday for a family of five...