Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finger and called himself Ba Cut. In protest against the Geneva conference that split Viet Nam, he refused to cut his hair. Refusing also to recognize the sovereignty of the new nation of South Viet Nam, he terrorized the back country, declared he would lop off the head of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. But last April Diem's army captured the rebel general, and the problem of whose head would roll was posed another...
...Department an extra $1.1 billion for the Air Force-which the Administration, after arduous consideration, had decided it did not need. At the same time, but by no means the result of erratic happenstance-the Senate Democratic leaders, again urged on by bipartisan rank-and-filers, seemed determined to lop $1.1 billion off the foreign-aid program-a cut which the Administration, after painful consideration, had decided would be next to disastrous (TIME, June...
...Babson match, however, was more difficult than the lop-sided score indicates, for two of the varsity's victories did not come until the nineteenth hole, while a third, Jim Bailey's, was not decided until the twentieth. Bill McAllister and Captain Bob Ornsteen, at one and two, had the delayed wins against Babson, but handled their M.I.T. opponents with more dispatch...
...Alta Cossart Lawson, a ferocious doyenne of Vincentown, N.J., returns now and then-they say-to stalk up and down -in front of the ruin of her mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife with an ax. ¶ Lettitia Dalton, the vain and vicious wife of a rich Virginia planter, was quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower...
...agreed to lop $49 million off the $155 million a year it charges Japan...