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...loathed by opposing fans) at games as Michigan’s “Hail to the Victors” or the “USC Trojan March” performed by seemingly hundreds of trumpets. Even the FSU “War Chant” and accompanying tomahawk chop can be somewhat addicting (if annoying at the same time...
...idea was to try to keep hijackers calm and get the plane on the ground so negotiations could commence. Although airline staff members get annual training in handling hijackers, a kamikaze mission was not in any scenario. In the past, "if someone outside the cockpit was threatening to chop someone's head off, nine times out of 10, you'd open the door," says a Cathay Pacific pilot based in Hong Kong...
...lake lay under low gray clouds, emunctory thunder rolling in the distance and the water agitated to a nice "muskie chop," as the judge calls it - good fishing weather. The judge - Judge David H. Brind of Geneva, New York, my father-in-law - pointed the boat S-SW toward the point of Sheer Rock Island. This is the fortieth year that the judge has come to fish for muskies in Elephant Lake; he knows every weedbed and rock, and almost every muskie by name...
...stories, so I’ve tried to sharpen my writing and work on my ability to describe people and situations in detail. I think I’m getting better, though it’s still a story-by-story debate with my editors, who often want to chop my longer sentences in two—sentences I use to try and tell stories more fluidly. I’ve really enjoyed working on a new subject almost every day, and it’s always fun to interview people from various walks of life...
...nicer if the film let us see its lithe star work his martial artistry, and not chop it into minute bits of film. Nahon seems not to know that Hong Kong action fighting is dancing and, like a Fred Astaire number, it needs to be shot in relatively long takes. When the Chinese chop things up, they toss them in a wok and eat them...