Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggest that Aldous Huxley is a sub-pessimistic old fuddy-daddy. He treated Huxley's prognostications, fulfilled or unfulfilled, with the strangled insincerity of a man who likes to say "say it ain't so," so he says it ain't. The thought of this compulsive lop-shifter of ideas and neologisms frothing his prophylactic at the dreaming West is downright rummy...
...fiercely proud Naga tribesmen, who inhabit the hills of India's elephant-ridden northeast frontier, no longer lop off other people's heads with abandon, but they still adamantly refuse to bow their own to any man. For two years India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, so often a volunteer peacemaker around the world, has been fighting a private and bloody little war of his own with dissident Nagas...
...word was usually enough to get Eisenhower, defense specialist, almost anything out of Congress that he wanted. But when Congress jibbed a bit, the President said he could accept a $1.3 billion "bookkeeping" cut. Then Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson found out that he could cut service manpower and lop off $200 million more. Back of the Battle of the Budget a second word got around that Eisenhower himself was dissatisfied with the rate of defense spending-that Charlie Wilson had let Pentagon spending get away from him. "Charlie just lost control," said one spokesman in the know. "He lost...
Railroadmen who try to lop off money-losing spur lines that no longer are really needed often have to run through months or years of hearings. The Chesapeake & Ohio, for example, consistently failed to get permission to discontinue a train that averaged only a handful of passengers daily. Finally the principal objector admitted that he did not ride the train himself; he just liked to set his watch by the train's noon whistle. Regulatory agencies know that every road has similar lines that should be eliminated so that the money saved could be used to improve service elsewhere...
...last . . . And if the two people love one another and marry, and if they have a happy family, isn't that what counts?" The week's bulletins on honeymooning Playwright Arthur Miller and Cinemac tress Marilyn Monroe: ¶ In Washington, the House, by a lop sided roll-call vote of 373 to 9, cited left-leaning Miller for contempt of Con gress for his refusal to unclam about form er Red buddies before the Un-American Activities Committee...