Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keen's English Chop House in Manhattan introduced the "Viand Visualizer," a refinement of the old-fashioned stereoscope. Instead of a menu, the customer gets the visualizer and a bunch of slides, picks himself a three-dimensional, "Technicolored" meal...
...been given time to do a gradual job, there was not much doubt that the Navy could have melted away $353 million in fat without nicking the muscle. But by demanding the cutback immediately, Johnson had forced the Navy to chop away at the only big target in sight. As a result, Louis Johnson's big plans for economy were beginning to look more like a blueprint for disarmament. Wrote Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop last week: "Wartime control of the Mediterranean has probably now been cast away . . . The security of the United States and the safety...
...powerful weapons such as recoilless guns have swung the advantage in land warfare back to the defense; how the co-ordination of radar net, jet-aircraft, and guided missile should make things very tough for the high-altitude bomber; bow rockets and fast submarines will be advanced enough to chop up conventional naval vessels at long range. Bush tends to describe war as crystallizing into a stable pattern-he states that a future war will bring "no such burst of new devices" as appeared in World War II. The devices he cannot talk about may prove him very wrong...
...Edam Cheese dish (it's in the book), stuffed with fish and fruit, a Chocolate Pie which comes out in separate layers. Then, there are simple things like a Mountain Soup; exotic dishes like Moghal Rice from India, Avocado Ice Cream from Hawaii, and a Ground-Nut Chop from West Africa that should be an experience for any American palate...
Overheated from the tea, I followed a group of freshmen infiltrating into the ballroom, in search of chocolate milk and root beer. "Now, I bet YOU play the piano!" a young lady was saying. "Not even chop sticks!" (She wiggled two fingers in the air to simulate the playing of chop-sticks.) "Hmm. There must be someone here...," she said, looking around the room...