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Word: lopped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes the meaning of Iphigenia's death: apart from showing her dissolve into a screaming little girl, when the play leaves her toweringly resolute, her death has become meaningless--she should never have climbed those stairs in the first place. If you thin about this entire movie; best to lop it off mentallyand forget it as quickly as possible. This leaves th performances. unvaryingly superb and thrillingly animated...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Tragedy--but not a Total Loss | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...Korean CIA before he fled Washington last fall to avoid questioning, and Seoul surely could serve him up if it seemed necessary to appease American critics. Seeking to show that that kind of appeasement might be necessary, a freshman New York Congressman, Bruce F. Caputo, urged the House to lop off $110 million earmarked for South Korea in a foreign aid appropriations bill. Caputo's amendment was defeated by a vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Still Waiting for Harvest Time | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...only 1,427 short of collecting that many earlier this year. In Washington, D.C., where assessments have jumped 75% in the past four years, furious homeowners forced the city council in July to pass acts that exempt the aged, blind and disabled from some of the increases, and to lop $6,000 off the assessed value of every single-family house. In the upstate New York hamlet of Hardenburgh, residents have dodged the assessor by joining a California mail-order outfit called the "Universal Life Church" and declaring their homes to be churches; they qualify for an exemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Wild, Wild Property Taxes | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...half, it was gone after the third quarter, when the Big Red had pushed the lead to 14-3. Hopkins did break through five times in the final stanza, but it is doubtful that anyone was paying attention by then. Cornell's eventual 16-8 margin was the most lop-sided in the seven-year history of the NCAA final...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Cornell Takes Lacrosse Title, Destroys Johns Hopkins, 16-8 | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

Jeff Combs bolloxed the layup and the Crimson streamed down the court with Honick bombing from the corner to lop Columbia's lead...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Cagers Shock Columbia in OT, 73-71 | 3/5/1977 | See Source »

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