Word: chopping
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...hotel and whizzed to the Air Ministry in Whitehall. Peter Portal hopped out and literally ran upstairs to his big, high-ceilinged office on the second floor. There he rushes all day-reading reports at his neat walnut desk, drafting concise memos for the War Cabinet, gulping down a chop and an apple for lunch, talking with aides and prodding them with his pipe stem, phoning, planning, dining at one of his clubs, scurrying back to his office and driving himself until small hours...
Lights Out was a sound-effects man's paradise. On one occasion the audible illusion of a victim's hand being smashed on an anvil had to be achieved. Everything was tried from slapping a pork chop with a cleaver to pounding wet paper with a hammer. At last came triumph: a lemon was laid on an anvil and struck with a small sledge...
...Annapolis the Varsity covered the same distance 59 seconds quicker than Saturday. While the conditions were worse at Navy than on the Charles, the wind and tide were both favorable on the Severn. Saturday the breeze came in stinging gusts out of the North, setting up a cross chop which made fast times an impossibility...
Despite gloomy pre-race forecasts, and a northwest wind which turned the Charles into a cross-course chop last evening, Tom Bolles' Varsity eight chalked up a decisive length and a half win over M. I. T., and left B. U. far in its wake. With the Jayvee and 150 pound boats following suit, the Crimson took four of the five races, and killed the best chance M. I. T. has had of winning the Rowe...
...shouts after you orai, which stands for "all right" but is actually a form of farewell. In Tokyo the taxis are takuski and the chauffeurs are doraibu. A knife is knaifu, butter is bata, scrambled eggs are sakurambu eggu, beefsteak is beefu teki, chocolate is chokoretto, a mutton chop is maton choppu, soup is soppu, a salad is sarado, celery is serari, a tumbler is koppu (cup). To the moga (modern girl) it is all a pain in the nekku...