Word: lopped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...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...