Word: choppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind. Male meat was good. (Rivera's present ambition, he said, is to taste a rump steak from Hermann Goring.) But female meat was better. Women's brains, said Rivera, should not be derided. Pickled, they are delicious. And, there was nothing more toothsome than a breaded chop cut from a charming young woman...
...Sylvia Sidney) whose access to high places stirs his suspicions; unmasks the crookery of a fellow-journalist (Rhys Williams); helps drive Tanaka to harakiri. For comic relief he makes a monkey, again & again, out of his feckless shadower (Leonard Strong). He uses judo, to thrilling and protracted effect, to chop down huge, shaven-pated Heavy Jack Halloran. Finally, in front of the U.S. Embassy one night, he confronts what looks like the entire secret police force of Japan. His tag line, spat at an oleaginous police chief (Marvin Mueller) who has had the insolence to try to appeal...
Wrote Ruiz: "We were handicapped by a lack of tools, emery, grease, packing, nuts & bolts. We did not have an ax with which to chop wood for our smokehouse...
Saga of the Pork Chop. Early in the war, when Government agencies asked the farmers to raise more hogs, they were promised a reasonable profit. To make sure they got it, OPA clamped a ceiling on the price of corn (averaging $1.07) and WFA put a floor price of $13.75 cwt. under the hog market...
...Germans used the flood shrewdly, shifting their forces northward to meet the heavily mounted drive of General Henry D. G. Crerar's First Canadian Army as it swung southward from captured Cleve to chop out a protective flank for a Ruhr-aimed offensive by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's big British Second Army...