Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when a televiewer selects a program on WGBH that interests him, he can expect it to end with a bang, not a whimper. Commercial stations must lop off programs or stretch them out to fit their advertiser's wallets; WGBH hopes to let its programs time themselves. "They'll be like Lincoln's legs," the Director of Programs declares, "long enough to reach the ground...
...piney woods of East Texas, deer hunting is a way of life. The natives, hard, stern men, pursue deer after their own local, brutal fashion, behind powerful, lop-eared hounds. "Five, ten miles ain't no area for a big deer to carry the dogs," drawls R. C. Pace, former sheriff of Jasper County. "Once I had one run twelve hours. You can go a long way in twelve hours...
When Edith hit Urbana last fall, she faced the usual requirement of 120 semester hours to get her degree. But her training at the Goethe Schule was so good that she was able to lop off 18 hours for her English, Russian and Latin, nine hours for her mathematics, twelve for history, four for geography, 18 for German. She added eight more by taking an advanced examination in Russian. After that, she was ready to tackle the remaining 51. The major she picked: economics...
...dance-drama of the early Kabuki called Shibaraku (Wait a moment), first seen in Tokyo in 1697, is still performed (see pictures opposite). Its hero, like many others in rough & tumble Kabuki tales, is a typical Oriental Superman who can lop off the heads of many opponents at a blow, lift houses with one finger, crush temple gates with his bare hands. The plot: a villainous lord, who has usurped the rule of the country, orders the decapitation of some people accused of losing a precious sword. Suddenly the brave hero appears, shouting "Shibaraku!" He then exposes the true culprit...
...Harvard football has come in so short a time, look back only to 1949, when the scores were lop-sided and the field strewn with injured Crimson players. Since that time, there has been a slow accretion of skill and spirit, as shown in the seasonal advance from one, to three, to five and now six victories. Credit for this steady improvement goes in part to those players who worked up through the Freshman and Junior Varsity to the performances of last Saturday and to the coaches who patiently molded them into a team...