Word: choppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most serious trouble is not gun fire. For eight weeks now the Communists have worked tirelessly and with much success to chop up China's communications and paralyze Government progress into North China. The Chinese railway net work north of the Yangtze River is cut in innumerable places. The only important road still operating north of the Yellow River is the Tsinan-Tientsin-Peiping line...
...left-handed pitching finally paid off: Detroit 9, Chicago 3. Now Manager Steve O'Neill of the Champion Tigers could turn his mind to duck-shooting. The Cubs' Charlie Grimm, saying, "Well, I ain't gonna hang myself," headed for his Robertsville, Mo. farm to chop wood and raise horses. Their managerial hangover from the World Series orgy would soon be over, but the 21 assorted records their clubs had set would last a while. Some of the records...
...fever heat, returned from a Pacific tour to announce a two-man crusade (with Admiral Nimitz) to get American men into cooler and fewer clothes. "First thing I did after leaving Honolulu," he said, "was to take off my tie, open the top two buttons of my shirt, and chop my pants off above the knee...
During the three days of their fourth retreat last week, they followed "a careful pattern of devotion," manual work, discussion and meditation. In the mornings they went to the mountaintop to chop trees and work on their new Kirkridge Lodge, of modern design. Afternoons were spent discussing social problems and sharing "faith-building" experiences. In the evenings, after supper on long wooden tables, they met by the hearth for devotions and evening prayer, after which no body spoke until work time next...
When the representative of Japan's Imperial Headquarters placed his chop on the parchment, hostilities would be over. After that, it would be up to MacArthur and the armies of occupation to win the peace-on the soil that the Japanese still consider sacred...