Word: choppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Future. Even with Bocchiccio picking up the tab, Walcott is one of the skimpiest eaters big-time heavyweight boxing has ever known. After a five-mile run he breakfasts on prunes, two eggs, a lamb chop, tea and toast. Then comes a mile walk, a nap until noon (he eats no lunch) and seven rounds' workout in the afternoon. For supper he does not wolf a 3-lb. steak (as Billy Conn used to), but settles for a smaller one. He looks lighter than his 196 Ibs. Most remarkable about him is the fact that he seems...
Contemporary Russian inventors were not idle. Last week, Tass reported that they had developed a new artificial arm with which disabled veterans could "write, saw and chop wood, strike matches, and operate a machine...
When the match began, Phipps spun his serve along the cowshed roof. The ball (about as hard as a baseball with a tennis-ball covering) skidded into a corner and Pierre scooped it out with an underhand chop stroke...
...Yale, and ate several meals there. We enjoyed rare roast beef that was tender and tasty, milk in individual paper bottles, and choice of dessert, including crackers and fancy cheese. This, I learned, is the usual quality of the fare of Yale men who even see an occasional lamb chop. The amazing thing is they pay only $10 per week for this delicious repast...
...felt himself slipping lower and lower for catch pharses. Is it worth the effort? He got an idea. A game. See how stupid a remark can be and still get laughter. He waved a lamb chop at them. I'll tell you, this food is strictly from hunger. No belly laughs but plenty of snickers, Vag noted, amused himself for the first time...