Word: choppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over new ways to torture Freshmen and take the joy out of their bright young lives. If he were not enthusiastically devoted to what he calls a "blundering and profane" game of tennis, if he did not spend his summers on a Vermont farm where he can swim and chop wood and write, if his own two children were not rather young, he would make a wonderful grandfather. He has forgotten his age; he looks at you straightforwardly with kindly, maybe even twinkling eyes; he smokes a pipe while he talks; and once there was even the massive bound lying...
...city's normal traffic slows to a halt as gas and power run out and heavy snows fall; Leningrad becomes a ghostly metropolis without moving vehicles, and masses of people trudge silently through the snowy streets, dragging their burdens on small sleds. When the water system fails, they chop holes in the ice to scoop water out of the gutters. They line up daily in long queues for their dwindling food rations; each carries off an allotment of bread that barely covers the palm of his hand. In their heatless homes and factories they work, eat and sleep...
...that peculiar name 24 years ago because no one knew what it meant and everyone wanted to know. Catering mainly to the steel industry, it now feeds 31,000 men daily at Carnegie-Illinois's Gary plant alone, concentrates on 25? carry-out lunches (spaghetti, macaroni, pork & beans, chop suey) because steel mills do not lend themselves to in-the-plant munching. It has had to turn down millions in new war business, already operates 80 branches chiefly in the Ohio-Illinois-Indiana steel belt and grosses $5,000,000-$6,000,000 a year...
...Schwartzkopf, who only last week broke Leslie MacMitchell's course record, ran a brilliant race to finish first and chop ten seconds from his previous record. Schwartzkopf's time of 26 minutes 7 seconds is especially good in view of the fact that Yale's five mile layout is one of the toughest in the country...
...October, we might storm the Continent and lose a couple of corps in doing it, but we would be there and we would push ahead. It might be a good idea to lose thousands and thousands, to martyr a per cent of our forces in order to chop a couple of years off the war. The casualties would be large but they would have to be suffered. . . . The martyr idea and the reduction of the war by two years might be a good plan, but remember I said it might...