Word: choppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game, wooden pegs (kangaroos) are used instead of balls and they are driven from a portable, slope-topped wooden tee-the projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...
Last February, in St. Petersburg, Fla., died Apostle Reed Smoot, still isolationist, still bitter at Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade agreements, which partially nullified the still-existing Smoot-Hawley Act. And last week, in Salem, Ore., death came to Willis Hawley, 77, the Oregon axman who had helped chop down the economic foundations of the world...
...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...