Word: chops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Charles Van Doren. "She knows everything!" Quiz Champ Van Doren was referring to his latest and ablest challenger in the gaming booths of Twenty One: Vivienne Nearing. 30. a blonde and pretty lawyer with a hard-candy smile who next week (NBC. Monday night at 9) threatens to chop a chunk out of Van Doren's $143,000 prize money...
...first ghost while an undergraduate at Cambridge, and he has been collecting them ever since. A convert to Catholicism (1908), he edited the prestigious Catholic quarterly Dublin Review for nearly a decade, now, at 72, cuts a glorious Irish swath through London on his visits, tricked out in mutton-chop whiskers, cockaded tam-o'-shanter, green kilt and dagger in the stocking. He pursues his ghosts with gusto that may well alarm the shyer shades, as well as some readers. To those who are under the impression that the church forbids traffic in ghosts, he explains that the prohibition...
...because the new highways must have milder curves, contractors will cut through hills, not go around them. The demand for better roads will give an edge to the big contractors, since state highway officials are expected to parcel out longer pieces of road in a single contract, rather than chop them up in six-or seven-mile bits for smaller local operators. This should not pinch the small man, because the pie is big enough for all. But it will make for efficiency. As U.S. Public Roads Commissioner C. D. Curtiss said last week: on a $300,000 job, contractors...
...Jordan, experts are advising him to bring all remaining colonial garrisons home, at least from Asia. Sandys is prepared to go far, but not so far as British Military Expert Captain Basil Liddell Hart, who last week urged Britain to put all its reliance on nuclear weapons, and chop its defense budget by nearly 50%-"which would bring it into fairer relationship with what a majority of our NATO neighbors are spending...
...other front in the war against disease? Said O'Connor: "We've considered three alternatives. One would be to shut up shop. Quit. But I don't think the public would let us. Another would be to pick out another specific disease. But we hesitate to chop off a big hunk of disease. The third alternative would be to pick out a broader area of activity. Geriatrics and mental disease are the two biggest problems in the U.S., but the size of the program needed to tackle them would be forbidding. I wish I knew what...