Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening half of the initial frame, but this early flurry netted only four tallies. In the home half of the first, B.U. took over the lead with a six-run deluge, and Harvard did not get on the good end of the score for the rest of the lop-sided contest...
...Lop au pouvoir!" A cowbell clanged, bringing the raucous hall to order. Le Maitre spoke: "La politique," he cried, "is a woman one courts and loves." The crowd whistled. Lop continued: "The government is impotent. Now we want realities." The crowd chanted: "Lop au pouvoir-Lop to power...
Other speakers followed. "We want unity," they shouted. "But we admit opposition-only, of course, to the point where it does not manifest itself. That is democracy. . . . For 15 years Ferdinand Lop, as he took off his pants at night, envisaged taking power the next day. Every morning, as he pulled on his socks, he was no closer to holding power. You must admit that such a man with the same idea for 15 years is not normal. That is why we who are normal follow...
...Maitre spoke again: "Tomorrow I shall be called to power." The crowd responded: . "Tonight, tonight!" Lop re plied: "Eh bien, tonight!" The crowd screamed: "Tout de suite, tout de suite!" Then they charged out on the streets...
...long after the irrepressible Lop reappeared on the balcony of a Latin Quarter cafe. "Tomorrow," he promised, "I shall be called to power." Loyally le front lopulaire rallied to cheer...