Word: hop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military airport outside the city the twin-engined Mei-Ling (named after Madame Chiang) dropped to earth after the short hop from within the city wall where Nanking's officialdom had gathered to see him off. Chiang said quick goodbyes to Vice President Li, Cabinet Minister Chang Chun and several others who had anticipated his moves correctly. Then he climbed aboard the plane and pulled the door shut himself. The Mei-Ling thundered down its runway at 4:15, climbed and circled Purple Mountain where the white stone of Sun Yat-sen's vast mausoleum reflected the last...
Baker was found dying of a pistol bullet wound through the head early yesterday shortly after his jeep wrecked. He had been riding in the moonlight along a lonely dirt road, with pretty Thelma Griffin, a young divorced tavern car hop who had met him only a few hours before at a night club...
...producer of industrial films, had a radical amendment to offer. The present continuous kick, said Handy, is too tiring: it gives the legs no chance to "relax, rest and breathe." What Jam Handy proposed was a new stroke that seemed to some swimmers like asking a track man to hop three steps on his right foot, then three steps on his left...
...scene: an asylum dance. On one side of the hall the women are lined up, coquettish in spite of their drabness; on the other side are the slicked-down men with little bouquets and candy boxes in their hands. To the stringy tune of a bored band, the partners hop and skip through their dance, distorting it like forlorn children at dancing school. The scene is only slightly harmed by an overlong, over-sentimental group singing of Going Home, timed with the heroine's own realization that she is indeed going home...
...Oppenheimer hop on TIME'S Nov. 8 cover as a result of Dewey's defloration? Did you "stop the presses" . . .? Let us readers backstage to peek at the pied type and the cover that fell to the floor around dawn Wednesday...