Word: lopping
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...price boss, patently worried about the runaway textile market, estimated that mill profits at the beginning of 1945 were running at the rate of about $365 million a year (v. $28 million a year average in 1936-1939). He said that his fight for lower textile prices would lop a mere $40 million off these lush earnings...
...Westward, Poland must expand to include "ancient Pomorze [Pomerania], Upper Silesia, East Prussia, with its broad outlet to the sea, and Polish outposts on the Oder." No plan for German dismemberment had gone as far as this: it would lop from prewar Germany a large (roughly 26,000 sq. mi.),populous (about 6,500,000), rich (coal and iron mines, farm lands) territory, most of which had not belonged to the Slavs since the 11th Century. It would push Poland's border to within 50 miles of Berlin...
They arrived in Calcutta from Missouri, Texas and Tennessee-two shiploads of bewildered, seasick, lop-eared army mules. There was no time to train them for jungle warfare. Brigadier General Frank Merrill's Marauders loaded them with mortars, 755, ammunition, radio equipment, food, and started them off on a 700-mile trek to Myitkyina through the Burma jungles...
...former employe of the Inter-American Travel Bureau, b haves very badly. He quarrels with his well-meaning relatives, insults his friends, lives off his wife because he sees no point in getting a job that can only be tem porary. He also plays around with a trol lop, and whenever he grows too utterly unhappy, goes out walking in the rain, getting his feet wet to spite everybody...
...acts are out. The convicts decided they were undignified. They work hard on their show, sometimes rehearsing until 2 a.m. When a Don Lee producer suggested that they could avoid this by using simpler musical arrangements, the musicians said they did not want to sound like "a bunch of lop-eared cons...