Word: choppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record peaks. Last year the company cleared $3,232,000 on sales of $31,565,000. Because the company is a prime Air Corps contractor, this year's figures are secret. One clue: because skyrocketing production has greatly reduced unit costs, the Army last March was able to chop $40,000,000 off the company's backlog by merely shaving prices...
...keep out of the army, conscripts have been known to chop off fingers, toes, hands, feet, have all their teeth pulled (suspicious examiners always check with the malingerer's dentist), puncture their eardrums, blind an eye with acids or alkalis, slash tendons, break bones in their arms and legs. Detection is often simple: a deliberate eardrum puncture, for example, will never occupy quite the same spot as one acquired from blast concussion...
...colonel called his Indians to attention and spoke to them in Urdu. Though Rommel speaks English, he does not know Urdu, which is a variation of India's Hindustani, a chop-suey language which includes Persian, Arabic and even some English words. While Rommel and his staff stood listening, the colonel rapped out his farewell. "Aj sham ko yihán se bhag jao," said he, which means roughly: "Let's get the hell out of here tonight...
...Quickest, simplest, safest method of amputation on the battlefield, said Colonel Norman Thomas Kirk of the U.S. Army, is the circular or "flapless guillotine" operation. "The word 'guillotine,'" said Colonel Kirk, "is a misnomer. The circular guillotine amputation is not a 'chop' operation." It consists of cutting around the skin of the limb, waiting a moment for it to draw back, then cutting around the connective tissue, waiting again for withdrawal, cutting through the muscles circularly, and finally sawing the bone. The old practice of covering the bone with flaps of skin has been abandoned...
...Joseph Stalin could not let this immediacy dazzle his eyes and stop his mind. He had to chop his way out of a thicket of decisions-about Moscow's de fense, about moving the Government to old Samara, now called Kuibyshev, about defending the Donets Basin, about the Volga, the Urals, the Far East, about Russia's present and Russia's future...