| 单词 | lop |
| 例句 | It feels less Darwinian than Swiftian; it calls to mind a long-ago dart attributed to G. K. Chesterton: when there aren’t enough hats to go around, the problem isn’t solved by lopping off some heads. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It was lying lopped and dead in the field. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He slapped the fish onto the table and, in one clean stroke of the hatchet, lopped off its head. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Tyrion lopped off the head of his spear, then his hand, then his arm, trotting around him in a circle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Across the room, Jason soared into the air and lopped the goddess’s head off. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit was lopping a foot off of Aneroid’s lead with every stride, but room was running out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I would have pleaded illness, but I knew that Falconer would brook no excuse short of my writing hand being lopped off—and even then he would probably insist that I transcribe left-handed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z For some reason, the women in the flower parade had their heads lopped off. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z He picked up Agelaos’ broadsword from where it lay, flung by the slain man, and gave Leodes’ neck a lopping blow so that his head went down to mouth in dust. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But Louie was already the fastest high school miler in American history, and he was improving so rapidly that he had lopped forty-two seconds off his time in two years. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z When the colony still would not surrender Tisquantum, Massasoit sent a messenger with a knife and told Bradford to lop off Tisquantum’s hands and head. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One thinks immediately of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who after having both his arms lopped off declares, “It’s just a flesh wound.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t trust Helen Keller. Even if you lopped her arms off.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bronn was surrounded by three.foes, but he lopped the head off the first spear that came at him, and raked his blade across a second man's face on his backslash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Salim had snapped one of the Eye, but lopped the top part off, because he was too close. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z "Soon enough, soon enough. Here, I got me a silver stag says they lop his head off." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was lopping off its head with a cleaver — ruining the meat! the servants yelled. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “I just center the subject as best I can and lop off whatever hangs over on either end.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z We all ate fried chicken that Mother had cooked, southern style, starting from scratch with killing them and lopping off their heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “First you gotta go in and lop off the branches. Then you chop down the trunk.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I stand on a towel while she lops off my curls with quick snaps of the shears. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Still, I managed to slash with my sword and lop off part of the monster’s snout. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He lopped the branches, split the trunks, and trimmed his puncheons true. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One swing of the cutting blade could lop off her head if she got sassy or too close, and it would be her own fault. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom’s laser eyes continued to lop off my body parts. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Since the censors’ Greek was even worse than Milton’s, they often made mistakes, lopping off endearments, x’s and o’s. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "Fool! They ain't neither going to lop him. Since when do they knick traitors on the steps of the Great Sept?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The instructor of the beauty training school had to lop off these soggy clumps to make my hair even again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The back of the building was lopped off to build a road to the nearest metro station and a second-floor exhibition space was added. An Arts Explosion Takes Shanghai 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In "Enigma Variations" Francis continues in the same vein by supplying the alphabet with a series of playful extensions, treating us to the delights of "%um" and "%osom", a "printer's $evil" and an "©nv©lop©". Muscovy by Matthew Francis – review 2013-05-10T15:59:39Z Unlike MGM’s 1968 wide-screen rerelease of Gone With the Wind, which lopped off the stars’ foreheads in closeups, The Wizard is shown in the familiar Academy ratio; it gives you, literally, the full picture. Oz Revisited: Why We Still Follow the Yellow Brick Road 2013-09-16T21:44:52Z Tune in next season when Dexter lops off a dog's head and eats it, and then Debra unknowingly falls in love with Pol Pot. "Dexter" finally goes too far 2009-12-14T20:15:00Z He also cropped his subjects in unorthodox places, lopping off parts of familiar objects — or worse still, people — to disturbing effect. Avigdor Arikha, Israeli Artist of the Everyday, Dies at 81 2010-05-01T04:48:00Z The shoulders were lopped off, giving the silhouette an interesting T-shape. Giambattista Valli presentation in Paris channels 1960s 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Her hair—clearly a wig—is an abstract-looking bob, lopped off mid-neck, while her legs appear bifurcated by a swatch of tablecloth, giving her the fragmented aspect of a Bellmer doll. The Women Who Mother Lifelike Baby Dolls 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The great thing about reading Buckley is that one comes to really understand why so gallant a nation as France lopped off so pretty a head as Marie Antoinette’s. Review: ‘The Jeweler’s Eye,’ by William F. Buckley Jr. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Grimacing cats with splayed claws appear frequently; in one instance, their tails lop off the heads of men in crescent-shaped helmets. Art Review: The Power Suits of the Past, as Worn During Ancient Empires 2011-04-22T21:48:37Z He picks the wrong woman to be his girlfriend because the second he starts stepping out on her, she's lopping his limbs off. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z It was too long to fit on a name tag, so she lopped two letters off the end. Holy Cottontail! The Playboy Club Is Back Again 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Overgrown shrubs or hedges can and should be transformed with a pair of lopping shears. Perspective | The winter garden is full of promise and productivity. Don’t let it go to waste. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z That’s only an estimate, though to judge by the gruesome opener that features the title character as a boy gouging enemy flesh and lopping off heads, it’s a fair guess. | 'Conan the Barbarian': Keep Hold of Your Head, Lest He Lop It Off With the Others 2011-08-18T21:54:37Z But they lopped off an hour, reduced the cast to a skimpy nine actors and pared the story to the bare essentials. Cue the 2012 Tony Awards, and a stripped-down Broadway season 2012-06-07T21:40:41Z Cut some of the verbiage and lop 30 minutes off the running time and this froth might fizz. Relative Values – review 2013-06-21T17:14:13Z Then, I’d pull the steaming bird out of the pan and hold it by the drumsticks to lop off its legs, which returned to the oven to finishing cooking while the breast rested. This Whole Duck Recipe Is Perfectly Imperfect 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z There were wide ties lopped so short Emmett Kelly could have worn them. On the Runway Blog: A Show That Only Versace Could Give 2013-01-12T21:46:39Z After Ryan called for Trump to “start lopping the heads off” of discredited officials, including Sanders, Sanders’s father, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, called the comment “an incitement to murder” on Twitter. What to do about Sarah Sanders? White House reporters have a few ideas. 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Pax Jolie-Pitt, 7, had a similar long, straight ’do that seems to have been lopped off in recent photos. If You Love My Hair That Much, Mom, Take It 2010-12-23T01:12:11Z The other four conservatives believed that the mandate could not be lopped off from the rest of the law and that, since one key part was unconstitutional, the entire law must be struck down. The Supreme Court's John Roberts Changed His Obamacare Vote in May 2012-07-01T17:01:02Z It’s time to grab the lopping shears and the hand pruners. Spring is nearly here. Have you finished your winter chores? 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z As it happens, he’s a handy guy with a sword and, well, limbs and appendages will be lopped off as this lawman lays down the law. ‘Only God Forgives’: Violence and vengeance in overdrive 2013-07-19T13:00:07Z It represents a 16-armed Durga slaying her most fearsome opponent with a trident after he emerges from the lopped neck of his buffalo disguise. Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z Mr. Sigfusson lopped off two stalks of wild hops to season the broth, a new use — at least to me — of the brewmaster’s mainstay. Why Cook Over an Icelandic Geyser? Because You Can 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Indignant scholars have caricatured him as a middlebrow hack who brutally lopped away a tenth of the novel, prudishly censored its erotic passages, and forced Lawrence, in a huff, to take his next novel elsewhere. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z Basically, you use lopping shears or pruners to cut a stem at shoulder level and at knee level. Like a virus, weeds seize any opportunity to spread — and this summer, they’re ferocious 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Disney's sales job in the U.K., where it sought to lop as much as five weeks from its regional run, was a bit easier. 2010-02-10T05:52:00Z Hands are lopped off and music trying as hard as it can to sound like it was recorded in 1975 is heard. A pro-lesbian movie about women in prison? 2011-03-19T14:01:00Z We use a cone with the tip lopped off, attached to a board, pointy side down. Perspective | 7 tips for raising backyard chickens, from picking a breed to having an exit strategy 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Heads and hands are lopped off at regular intervals; the body count practically defies computation; and the finale is a banquet that only the meat-pie-making Mrs. Lovett of “Sweeney Todd” could love. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z Liverpool's Everyman and Playhouse theatres are losing 20% of their funding, and the Hull Truck Theatre has had £100,000 lopped from its budget. Regional theatre cuts attacked by cast of British stars 2011-03-13T00:05:57Z She also calls clinics to ask for discounted treatment; sometimes a doctor lops a few thousand off the bill. Who can afford to get pregnant? IVF 'baby scholarships' raise a class issue 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The danger with being over-parsimonious, while all around you are liberal with the stars, is that theatre-goers get used to the over-inflation and mentally lop a star off everything; but that way madness lies. Lyn Gardner on Edinburgh star ratings 2011-08-21T20:59:02Z If you don’t obey your parents, it’s going to get lopped off.” From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z “It’s like taking a serrated knife and lopping off our history,” she said of the addition. Addition to Landmark Is Disputed 2011-01-05T23:05:07Z Who knows, the cuts might even convince Rob Marshall to lop an hour or so off Pirates Of The Caribbean's traditionally punishing running time. 'We're gonna need a smaller boat': where should Pirates of the Caribbean 4 make its savings? 2010-05-06T13:13:00Z And, as women in the 1920s had found when they lopped off long hair, the freedom was sexual as much as visual. Saying Farewell to Vidal Sassoon 2012-10-15T13:58:47Z Their tentacle-like inner arms are laced together to help them keep their balance — a good thing, considering that their lower limbs are either lopped off or replaced by hooks. ‘Twisted Impressions’ show is ghoulish, thought-provoking 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z I walked round a few corners and there it stood – like someone had lopped a bit off La Sagrada Família and dropped it into this sleepy hamlet. Gaudí's Catalan shadow: the art of Josep Maria Jujol 2013-06-03T06:00:06Z By that measure, it’s easier to lop off the memories of seasons one to four, and accept these three on their own terms. The ultimate TV recap: a superfan's tribute to The West Wing 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Charlie, the family’s Holland lop bunny, materializes beneath the coffee table and sniffs a foot. After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z By lopping off the last syllable, it's clear there's a Haitian-Creole influence at play. When I think of essential Cuban food, I think of congrí 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z There's nothing that can be done to change the status quo, and questioning it might get your head lopped off. Sweet but unchallenging, "Miracle Workers: Dark Ages" dresses our modern ignorance in medieval garb 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z “Is it a criminal offense for lopping off someone's foot on a plane?” another said. Passenger shamed for putting bare foot on someone else's armrest during flight 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Ideally, whichever meat you choose will have built up a dark outer bark that can be lopped off with a few knife strokes and stacked on to a disc of griddled flatbread. Why Does This Fancy Shopping Mall Smell Like Street Meat? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Everyone else was in the jungle, climbing tall sal trees and lopping off leaves for the buffaloes to eat. Personal Journeys: ‘Behind the Veil of the Forest’ in India 2012-12-21T16:57:27Z On the other hand, red meat can shave minutes off your life while cigs will lop it off in half-hour chunks. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z Slowed it down or stopped: Words were lopped, words dropped — Naomi Replansky, Poet of Hopeful Struggle, Dies at 104 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Did he simply slice off a little chunk of his ear, or did he lop off the entire ear? New Evidence on van Gogh’s Ear Continues Debate on Painter’s Mental State 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Indeed, the occupiers were so much at their ease that when Sir William Macnaghten, who was administering the occupation, had his head lopped off, he thought he was at a friendly meeting with his slaughterer. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple – review 2013-01-23T09:01:01Z The film is nothing if not liberal with its bloodletting, which integrates cleverly at times with the 3-D: lopped fingers, for example, fly toward the audience. Movie Review: ‘Silent Hill: Revelation 3D’: 2012-10-27T02:13:01Z Your decision lopped off your partner’s expected life path. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: No little bundle of joy, but a big bundle of woes 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z She tells me she once dropped a Seamless order on a sculpture and it lopped off the arm. The Artist Critiquing Feminine Clichés with Ceramic Heels and Cigarette Butts 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z In 1777 a direct hit on the painting from an American cannonball lopped off the king’s head. Antiques: Princeton?s Faculty Room and Britain?s Rail Posters 2010-05-27T21:29:00Z This is usually followed by a slow pan of the twitching, dying victims and their lopped extremities and detached entrails, cheesy-looking scenes that appear concocted from a community-theater prop closet. Critic’s Notebook: Distinguishing Sportacus, on ‘LuckyTown,’ From ‘Spartacus’ 2013-01-24T23:39:07Z The flamboyant, sociopathic Missy Blonde emerges as the main suspect but proves her criminality by lopping off something unmentionable and waggling it in a hostage’s face. Which other Hollywood 'bro' movies need a Ghostbusters-style gender swap? 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The arts aren’t a useless appendage that can be lopped off without inflicting serious damage. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z He suggests lopping a half-hour off the Today programme, rather than more serious cuts, such as to the World Service. Letters: Global and local effects of BBC cuts 2011-03-17T00:05:06Z The WNO production also lopped off this essential vignette, a major loss and one that confuses the drama. Review | Pared down and dumbed down, ‘Don Carlo’ still dazzles at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Using a freshly sharpened knife, lop off tops and tails, slip off skins. Go big with a standing rib roast for Christmas dinner 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z While age-related discounts are not universal, they exist in some pursuits, like skiing, where senior status can lop a few dollars off your access to the slopes. Thrifty Strategies for Senior Travelers 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z In reality, a head was lopped off in an intratribal war as recently as last March. T Magazine: Water World 2010-11-19T20:34:00Z Her face is unrecognisable—a mess of torn flesh, an ear severed, her nose lopped off—and so is her life. Reconstruction 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z By comparison Mr. Murphy originally lopped off an entire act of “Conversations on a Homecoming,” which looks at a reunion through the disillusioned eyes of an out-of-work actor who has just returned from America. ‘DruidMurphy,’ Three Tom Murphy Plays at Lincoln Center 2012-06-29T00:55:05Z The canvas is turned vertically and the top of the taller tree appears lopped off to compress its shape into a bulky, churning mass. Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Even Mr. Leto, naturally ahead of the curve, lopped his off in March. Man Buns Are Holding On in Brooklyn 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z It felt like large chunks of the 2nd act were just lopped off because the running time was too long. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Indeed, it's closer in spirit to the awful "Walking Dead" game Activision published this year - it's all about the thrill of lopping undead heads clean off. Review: A new 'Dead Island' vacation with zombies 2013-04-25T13:34:13Z It means a decade of progress, growth and popularity has been lopped off. Warning for Seattle: The schools’ pandemic hangover is not easing 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z The Manchester-Leeds leg was lopped off by the Conservative government in 2021, after the coronavirus pandemic brought train travel to a halt. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rallies his Conservatives by saying he’s ready to take tough decisions 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Rub the excess paper from the head of garlic, trim its root end to remove any dirt and lop off the top ½-inch to expose the cloves. This cookbook shares 20 full menus for all types of gatherings 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z State lotteries typically lop off 24% of winnings for federal taxes, and the bill can run even higher because the top federal income tax rate is 37%. $1.55 billion Mega Millions prize balloons as 31 drawings pass without a winner 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Then, the night before they hit the water, they’ll lop it all off. Swimmers remain convinced that shaving down is a key to fast times 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Does that mean developers should lop off the back of hotels to make housing? American Cities Have a Conversion Problem, and It’s Not Just Offices 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z The immediate objective would be to lop off 2.5 hours a week in 2024 from 40 now, and then gradually cut the working week to 32 hours, she said. Spain's potential leftist kingmaker courts voters with shorter workweek pledge 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z PwC acting chief executive Kristin Stubbins told a state parliament inquiry on Monday the firm would not benefit from a sale that will lop off a fifth of its current revenues. PwC Australia asset sale unlikely to solve firm's tarnished reputation 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Overnight Wednesday, Tesla lopped $3,000 off the U.S. starting prices of all versions of the Model Y, its top-selling model. Price cuts cause Tesla 1Q income, profit margins to fall 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The dismembered hands, researchers reported last week in Scientific Reports, are likely a cache of battlefield trophies—prizes lopped from enemies’ bodies and exchanged for gold in a ritual known as the “gold of honor.” Severed hands unearthed at ancient Egyptian site may have been battle trophies 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The King County Prosecutor’s Office filed a court petition under that law in December 2021, asking that 432 months in firearm enhancements be lopped off Frost’s sentence. Seattle clemency group is helping free lifers from WA prisons — and thrive on the outside 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Sometimes Tom’s head will be menacingly lopped off by the top of the frame, as if to underscore just how small, and how vulnerable, Lea is. Review: The teen drama 'Palm Trees and Power Lines' tells a searing story of abuse 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Spooked investors have lopped off more than $100 billion from the market capitalisation of seven of the group's listed stocks since Hindenburg Research last week questioned the group's debt levels and use of tax havens. India's Adani shares nosedive on concern about broader Hindenburg fallout 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The plan would generally restore pre-pandemic rail service, but also lop off part of the Yellow Line, which would cease operations north of Mount Vernon Square at stations also served by the Green Line. Metro proposes fare, service hikes while emerging from pandemic 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z So commercial aviation says it’s looking to lop off emissions where it can — from the routes aircraft take to the time they spend circling airports, sitting on the tarmac or idling at the gate. Commercial aviation, built on pollution, is getting a tiny bit greener 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Now, Budget Chair Teresa Mosqueda is trying basically the same thing by proposing to lop off 80 sworn officer positions. Seattle City Council should stay strong on building back public safety 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z A federal judge lopped a dozen years off the prison sentence of a former U.S. Former Army Ranger who robbed Tacoma bank has sentence reduced 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Rep. Pramila Jayapal, just had her head lopped off for suggesting, in a letter, that the U.S. ought to keep supporting Ukraine but also seek to negotiate an end to Russia’s war with that country. Antifa on the train? How the GOP is making new rules for political speech 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Another 5% has been lopped of world stocks since June, oil has slumped more than 20% and Japan and Britain have both had been forced into currency or bond interventions. Take Five: A bumpy home straight 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Because the trap creates a straight-line injury across the paw, the toes appear to have been lopped off. Fur traps fingered as source of grizzly injuries 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z But he argues that instead of lopping down large trees, forest managers should allow more wild land fires to progress naturally. At Yosemite, a Preservation Plan That Calls for Chain Saws 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z I grabbed a fistful of lavender and chopped away at the stems as if I were lopping off a ponytail. In Washington state, lavender fields forever 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z In other instances, he explained, arborists have climbed up the giant trees to check for embers or to lop off their burning limbs. How to Save an Ancient, Giant Tree From a Wildfire 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Its revisions lopped a combined 74,000 jobs from April and May payrolls. EXPLAINER: 5 key takeaways from the June jobs report 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The measures have lopped 5 to 6 percentage points off headline inflation, Orban has said. Hungary extends food and fuel price caps until Oct amid surging inflation 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z In the case of the toilet paper, Georgia-Pacific recently lopped off more than 100 sheets from each roll. Manufacturers, retailers resort to ‘shrinkflation’ amid production crisis 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Ordinarily, if a project starts to exceed its budget, funders lop off parts of it to contain costs. Pandemic lockdowns, supply shortages, and inflation wreak havoc with big science projects 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Similarly, the Viper V2 Pro manages this feat without being drilled full of holes to lop off weight. Razer’s Viper V2 Pro wireless gaming mouse is extremely lightweight 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The state legislature lopped off the tail of Ms. Kaptur’s oddly drawn district along Lake Erie — nicknamed the Snake on the Lake — then extended it west through rural Ohio to the Indiana border. Labor’s Disenchantment in Ohio Puts Even Democratic Veterans at Risk 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z On Friday I had a bit of a “turn” - lop sided and unable to speak. NHS boss feared waiting for ambulance after stroke 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z But he now takes it too far by taking a routine piece of legislation, and amending it to lop one year off the four-year terms of some Loudoun school board members. Opinion | Glenn Youngkin can’t stop stoking divisions in Virginia 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z “They would boil them and lop off the end of the shell and eat the flesh out of them,” Dr. Prufer said. Human Migration Brought Maize to Maya Region, Study Finds 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Spring training will be lopped by nearly three weeks. We’re all ready to spring forward after the end of a damaging MLB lockout 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z This one is a lockout that the owners instigated, and it will shorten the start of the year rather than lop off the conclusion of a campaign. Perspective | What baseball loses when capitalism and romanticism collide 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The company lopped off Beethoven’s beginning and his ending. Review: Beethoven remade as Black Lives Matter music at the Broad Stage 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Or will it simply keep the current schedule, lop off the games missed, never to be played and move forward as if they never existed? Uneasy feelings persist as MLB negotiations continue on decisive day of labor impasse 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The commission, however, appears intent on lopping off Republican-heavy Simi Valley from Mr. Garcia’s district in north Los Angeles County, leaving him holding on by a thread to a considerably less conservative seat. Redistricting Makes California a Top House Battlefield for 2022 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Then late last summer, when they hired a company to lop off branches encroaching on the neighbor’s yard, the company’s workers pointed out ominous symptoms: browning leaves, dead branches. Across the Mid-Atlantic, giant oak trees are dying 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z The angst was quickly solved by carpenters lopping off the top layer of shelving to reveal the windows in full and a slightly lower countertop under them. A major renovation yields a multigenerational home on Capitol Hill 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The White House noted in a September report that the shortage could lop a full percentage point off economic growth this year. Commerce head out to save US jobs, 1 computer chip at a time 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z In our “Now” photo at the same location, the boulders have shifted position, their top halves seemingly lopped away. Eagle Falls near Index: An easy jump, but hell if you don’t make it 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z A gray cable knit sweater had the midriff section lopped off, alongside frayed white shirt hems. Chanel caps Paris Fashion Week’s post-virus comeback 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z This is the third time Venezuela’s socialist leaders have lopped zeros off the currency. Venezuela introduces new currency with 6 fewer zeros 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The government last week announced it would lop six zeros off the currency — a million-to-1 change — with new bills as of Oct. Hyperinflation, US dollars pricing out Venezuelan consumers 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z In a show of determination and defiance, one of the first things Ms. Theary Seng did when she learned of the charges against her was to lop off her hair. Charged With Treason, a Genocide Survivor Opts to Fight, Not Flee 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Norton suggested that transgender women were driven by mental illness to lop off body parts, and yet it was only those who objected who were ridiculed. In Michigan, Pro-Impeachment Republicans Face Voters’ Wrath 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z At first it was light work, lopping off radiating branches that made up the tree’s crown. Goodbye to a Yankee Farmer, the Ghost of Exit 8 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Depending on the state, convicted felons can have as much as half their sentence lopped off if they behave themselves in prison. Cops who kill often catch a break at sentencing time 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It fell Wednesday, when Musk said those deals were off — an announcement that helped lop about about $10,000, or nearly 20%, from bitcoin’s price in the space of 12 hours. Column: Is Elon Musk trying to destroy bitcoin over environmental concerns? 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z He lopped nearly $10,000 off the price of bitcoin in hours Wednesday after saying Tesla wouldn’t take it for cars. Bitcoin tumbles after Musk implies Tesla may sell cryptocurrency 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z “The wealthy are under attack and they are seeing if there isn’t a way to lop off 15%. They are looking for options.” 'Millionaires tax' threat has some NY bankers, managers eyeing exits 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Corsair is the latest company to introduce a 60-percent wired mechanical keyboard of its own, lopping off the arrow keys and other functions for a more compact design. Corsair’s K65 RGB Mini gaming keyboard is for people who think less is more 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Last week, Iowa legislators sent to Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, legislation that would cut a third of the state’s early-voting period and lop off an hour of Election Day voting. Supreme Court Case Could Limit Options to Fight Republican Voting Restrictions 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z “But once you lop off all the senior judges, it’s hard to view it otherwise.” New York Is Ousting Older Judges to Save Money. They’re Fighting Back. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z I tried to whitewash my résumé — and thereby my age — by lopping off early jobs and erasing the year I graduated from college and grad school. Perspective | At my age, it’s time to fight everyday ageism — especially when I’m guilty of it 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Odd-shaped tools like lopping shears can also be hung from the rails. It’s Time to Tackle the Garage 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Now, he is bent on lopping off limbs throughout this country’s intelligence apparatus. Opinion | Trump’s purges are spreading, and it’s dangerous 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z It doesn’t take any English to lop off 2,000 turkey tails in an hour. ‘We Were Bulletproof’: As Child Soldiers Grow Up, Legacy of War Lingers 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z When they were transferred, the system simply lopped off a chunk of the names. In U.K.’s Test and Trace: Now You See ’em, Now You Don’t 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z One way to reduce the time of game, of course, is to lop off innings. Analysis | This year, MLB pennant races will be decided nine innings at a time — or sometimes seven 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Remember, that despite years of planning, the weather forced Republicans to lop off one day apiece from their conventions in 2008 and 2012. RNC, DNC conventions amid Covid leave veteran journalist pining for normalcy 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Abortion in the U.S. has lopped millions of potential years off Black life, according to one study. Black pro-life leaders pan Planned Parenthood's Sanger disavowal: 'Like changing the name of Auschwitz' 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z After each was felled, he scrambled toward the tree’s top to lop off branches. A return to the past with oak savannas in Dane County parks 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z For about five years, beginning in the mid-1990s, the Taliban went around terrorizing women and lopping off limbs and basically behaving like the Khmer Rouge. Opinion | Why is the party with a strong chance of winning playing a reckless game with U.S. history? 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Another statue of Columbus in Boston had its head lopped off last week. Cities Want to Remove Toxic Monuments. But Who Will Take Them? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z In Houston, the left hand has been lopped off a 7-foot statue of Columbus that’s been a repeated target of vandals. Where have statues of Confederates, and other historical figures, been removed? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z A diseased tree with three infected and intertwined branches that each must be lopped off. Opinion | The problem of policing isn’t bad apples. It’s a diseased tree. 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z And some pro scouting and player development officials are frustrated that the draft got lopped off at five rounds. Perspective | Minor leagues have major issues, and baseball’s future will feel the impact 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z If entire teams are being lopped off, might cutting down on travel costs be a good way to salvage some that remain? Perspective | College sports should use this time to heal its self-inflicted wounds 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z As global demand fell off a cliff amid lockdowns, oil companies lopped billions from planned spending. Angola's oil exploration evaporates as COVID-19 overshadows historic reforms 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z We turned the opposite direction, making the best of every moment, every stride, me with eyes wide open, him lopping along, content and carefree. Running While Black: Our Readers Respond 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Entire limbs are being lopped off family trees, and their wisdom and lore are dying with them. Venerable but vulnerable: Centenarians hit hard by virus 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Stocks fell sharply on Wall Street Wednesday, lopping 5.9% off the Dow Jones Industrial Average and bringing the index into a bear market. How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Stimulate luxuriant new growth by lopping these plants to within a few inches of the ground. March is a great time to prune many shrubs, but not all 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z White dudes like him have been moaning about decadence for millennia, usually just before they lead us to war or get their heads vigorously lopped off. Review | How success ruined the West 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z When the site was destroyed - Stewart suspects by the electricity company that came periodically to lop branches growing too close to pylons - he moved on. 'Why I don’t want to live in a house' 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z “Cromwell says I need more practice in lopping heads.” The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel – read the exclusive first extract 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z And so last year he launched a long-shot campaign to persuade the leaders of Baja California Sur to lop off the Baja and lose the Sur. Think you know where California is? Think again, says a Mexican activist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Prune by lopping to the ground any stems that bore fruit, as evidenced by remains of fruit stalks and peeling bark. March is a great time to prune many shrubs, but not all 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Sections of the silhouette - such as the midriff or the top of thighs - seemed to be visually lopped off in a clever show of shape-play by the French designer. Fluidity and autumnal hues hit Paris menswear week 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Under the order, "no one is allowed to cut down, top or lop" the tree without the council's permission. 'Strawberries and cream' tree gains protection 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z A&T State University area, now lopped off from Greensboro, into the same district as the rest of the city would create a Democratic district, The Post analysis shows. Redistricting activists brace for wall of inaction as battle moves to states 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z He then assumed workers habitually downed five stiff drinks just before work, so multiplied the two by five and concluded alcohol lopped 10% off production. Why prohibition failed so spectacularly 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z And without the key-lime-pie-coloured consumer version, £239.99 from your nearest Nike store, legions of club runners are not lopping chunks off their personal bests either. No record is safe with IAAF poised to allow arms race in shoes to run and run | Sean Ingle 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z By delaying the start of that career by a year, the league is lopping off 20% of the average player’s career. Recent Kansas Editorials 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Wednesday sleeps in a guillotine bed, arising quickly each morning and evading the blade that threatens to lop off her braids with nooses at the ends. ‘The Addams Family’ review: a kooky but not-so-spooky animated feature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Domes and minarets are lopped off mosques and replaced with curving Chinese roofs. China's Muslim clampdown creeps into the heartland, targeting Hui minority 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z But the move broke from precedent in lopping weeks off the time opposition lawmakers have to stop what they see as a potentially disastrous no-deal Brexit. Tens of Thousands Take to Streets to Protest Boris Johnson Maneuver in Parliament 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z But inflation has again risen to 175 percent, lopping off chunks of people’s wages and savings. Zimbabwe police violently disperse protest over nose-diving economy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z The government lopped off Ladakh, a mountainous and predominantly Buddhist area of Jammu and Kashmir, into a separate territory. Modi’s radical move on Kashmir takes India into uncharted territory 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Indeed, name another course on earth that could choose to lop off its 17th and 18th holes and still get better. How Royal Portrush got its (unlikely) second chance to host the British Open - Golf Digest 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z One after the other, the black slash of my pen like a sword lopped them off. “Uncle Jim Called” 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Clean monochrome silhouettes emphasized the shoulder - be it the human shoulder exposed with garment’s arm lopped off, or a constructed, rounded or oversize shoulder that evoked the Eighties. Styles get romantic in Paris menswear with verdant blooms 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z The market liberals who had once confidently debated “When will China democratize?” began lopping the first word off that question. Opinion | If you question whether many Chinese people want democracy, look at Hong Kong 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z At four sites in Mawanella, a central Sri Lankan town, they hacked at Buddhist statues, lopping off parts of their faces and hands. 'Mawanella was the start': small Sri Lankan town reels from bombing links 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Hollings later lopped off his surname from the legislation, saying the revised effort lacked teeth. Senate pays tribute to Fritz Hollings, the 'senator from central casting' 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z In the case of the open-center tree, lop off the central stem just above the third branch. For plenty of delicious fruit, be sure to prune fruit trees 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Prune these shrubs by lopping to the ground all flowering stems, that is, those that are a year old, right after they finish their show. Pruning tips to keep flowering shrubs blossoming for years 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Kraft’s shares plunged 28 percent on Friday, lopping more than $16 billion off the company’s stock market value. Kraft Tests How Much Costs Can Be Cut as Tastes Change 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z His order lopped a year off the schedule agencies had requested to give them enough time for their work. Washington state to regulate federal dams on Columbia, Snake to cool hot water, aid salmon 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Then, the sales would dip drastically below previous forecasts, lopping off $45.2 billion in the next three years, the data showed. Exclusive: India's e-commerce curbs could hit online sales by $46... 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Just last week, Tesla lopped $2,000 off the cost of all of its cars to compensate for the fact that they’re now only eligible for half of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit. The starting price of a Tesla Model S will soon be $18,000 higher 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Shrubs whose newest shoots put on the best show are the easiest to prune: Simply lop the whole plant completely to ground level each year. Pruning tips to keep flowering shrubs blossoming for years 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Apple's share price fell to a new 52-week low in early Thursday trading, down more than 8 percent, lopping some $50 billion off the company's market cap. Apple has become the biggest casualty in Trump's trade war with China 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The former US ambassador to the UN once said that if you lopped off the top 10 floors of the organisation’s New York headquarters, it would make no difference. Who is Heather Nauert? The new UN ambassador with little experience 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z He recently unveiled new currency in August that lopped off five zeros from previous bank notes. Nicolas Maduro likens Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z In the aftermath of a tough competition, cherish the little blessings: No one has lopped off the losers’ heads, slathered them in an embalming fluid and mounted them for all to see. A brief history of displaying opponents' severed heads 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Bolton, who once called for lopping off the top floor of the U.N. headquarters, appears eager to downgrade the ambassadorial position there to reflect his conviction that the global body is irrelevant. Trump may tap State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as U.S. envoy to United Nations - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Plus, Stanton can opt out of his contract after the 2020 season, which would potentially lop off the final seven years and $218 million of that deal — money that could be replaced by Harper’s salary. Analysis | Where will Bryce Harper play in 2019? A comprehensive guide to the leading contenders. 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Investors remain on edge after watching $10 trillion lopped from U.S. equity prices in a month as lofty expectations for earnings were tested amid heightened trade tensions and tightening financial conditions. An ugly rout led by tech stocks 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Personally, for that reason, I would have lopped off the final scene, which I simply didn’t believe in, and which, if anything, resolves too much. “Bohemian Rhapsody” Is the Least Orgiastic Rock Bio-Pic 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z And in that moment he thought he'd lopped the back of my hair off. Why real-life spooks love spy dramas 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z So, it’s best to lop a year off the wait. It’s in nobody’s interests to delay the NHL to Seattle beyond 2020, so let’s give them no reason to 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Adding to the pain, a key technology patent will expire next year, lopping another $600 million or so from cash flow. Roche steps up efficiency drive to take sting out of biosimilars 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z As one popular joke goes: it’s like Fifa, just lop off a few zeros. Who will be king? Three-way battle for control rocks international chess 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z It also pointed to the custom of "lopping" applicants near the end of the process while admission officers are shown a spreadsheet that "prominently displays applicants' races." Justice Department criticizes Harvard admissions in case alleging bias against Asian Americans 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z And one member told me, she said, "I already had my head lopped off for going against him before the November election. I can't afford for that to happen again." Exclusive: Rep. Eric Swalwell says by beating Republicans this fall, “we’re doing them a favo... 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The new currency lops five zeroes off the old "strong bolivar" - meaning a cup of coffee worth 2.5m strong bolivars in the capital Caracas last month now costs 25 sovereign bolivars. Venezuela 'paralysed' by new currency 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Zimbabwe devalued its currency, lopping several zeroes off its bills. Can Venezuela halt hyperinflation? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z The changes start with the introduction of a currency that lops five zeros off the country’s fast-depreciating bills. Venezuelans nervously await dramatic economic reforms 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Venezuela is introducing economic reforms including new banknotes that lop five zeros off its fast-depreciating currency as the country battles hyperinflation. 14m bolivars for a chicken: Venezuela hyperinflation explained 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Then they said they would lop off three zeros. Venezuela Cuts to Fight Inflation (Zeroes From Its Currency, That Is) 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z They’re also astonishingly beautiful, with inquisitive faces and floppy lop ears. A physicist-turned-farmer left L.A. for a mountain getaway. You can visit for goat cheese and cajeta 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z “It’s unprecedented in the United States that one branch of the government goes in and lops off another,” he said. A Coup or a Couch? What’s Behind the Impeachment of West Virginia’s Supreme Court 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Precisely when the world will be watching is the time to provide women with a challenging and testing course, not lop it in half and eviscerate it of its most exciting components. Faster, higher, stronger? Not in Olympic women’s road cycling | Stephanie Constand 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z But imagine if Coachella lopped off the top line of its headliners and the festival then got even more popular. KCON aims to ride the 'Korean wave' to pop-culture dominance 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z But on July 25, with the dollar trading for nearly 3.5 million bolívars on the black market and continuing to lose value, the government said it would lop off five instead. Venezuela Cuts to Fight Inflation (Zeroes From Its Currency, That Is) 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Its shares plunged 19 percent, lopping roughly $120 billion of the company’s market value in a single day. Apple’s $1 Trillion Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The stone is no longer rectangular; it’s more like a pyramid with the pointy end lopped off. We Are All Scutoids: A Brand-New Shape, Explained 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Ethnicity is one of many factors considered in a lop, Mr. Fitzsimmons said in his deposition. ‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores Harvard’s Admissions Secrets 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z But the court papers describe a continuing process called “a lop,” which the plaintiffs say is used to shape the demographic profile of the class. ‘Lopping,’ ‘tips’ and the ‘Z-list’: Bias lawsuit explores Harvard’s admissions secrets 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z One of Maduro’s plans to alleviate inflation is to issue new banknotes with the last three zeros lopped off, though economists say that will do little to help. 'Millionaires are poor': Venezuelans struggle to survive as inflation spirals 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z And measuring whether the neutron is or isn't close to the platform lops off half of the original wave. Quantum measurements could power a tiny, hyper-efficient engine 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z At the end of the admissions process, the class of applicants is fine-tuned through a so-called “lop list,” which includes race. Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits, Suit Says 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Yet another was “bright & busy” but it was “a bit difficult to see what would hold him in during a lop.” ‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores Harvard’s Admissions Secrets 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z In a response filed in court Friday, Harvard said that all information in an application file is considered during the lop, and that lopping is not used to control the racial makeup of the class. ‘Lopping,’ ‘tips’ and the ‘Z-list’: Bias lawsuit explores Harvard’s admissions secrets 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z It lopped off 80 words of longstanding language from its postmeeting statement which discussed how rates were “likely to remain, for some time, below levels that are expected to prevail in the longer run.” The Fed’s Statement Was Short, but It Wasn’t Sweet 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z That move lopped millions from U.S. trade, predominantly from neighboring Wisconsin and New York, and tripled Canadian exports of the milk classification, according to the National Milk Producers Federation. Behind Trump's dairy rant, a cheesed-off Wisconsin and Canada's sacred cows 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z They suffer when a big arm is lopped during the growing season, or a crown is next to an all-night light. The secret life and value of trees 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z So North Berwick’s Redan, and every such hole that has since followed, lops off one half of the fortress in imitating it. What makes Shinnecock's Redan green so unique - Golf Digest 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z But Tahmasbi couldn’t bear to cut through his meticulously crafted exterior, so he told the folks at the body shop to simply lop the nose off the cab. What’s in a food truck? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z That August, Mr. Iger lowered the company’s earlier financial guidance, causing a stock selloff that lopped more than $20 billion off Disney’s market value that week. How a Weakened ESPN Became Consumed by Politics 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z As things take a bad turn, she lops her own hair off, which seems symbolic of a change in her circumstances—a loss of hair tends to suggest a loss of strength or agency. ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ a Disquieting Masterpiece, Turns 50 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The victim was beaten and had a finger lopped off. Dozens with ties to supremacist gangs arrested in Texas 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z A trade war between the two countries would lop 0.7 percent off of the U.S. U.S. fund managers brace for trade war with focus on pricing power 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z He lopped nearly six seconds off his training run to win gold, and then added a silver in the super-G. Paralympic Skiers Confront the Scars That Linger From Sochi 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z That’s why when a company reports disappointing financial results for a single quarter — missing an earnings target by a few million dollars, for example — markets sometime lop billions from the company’s value. The Trump Steel Tariffs Are Economically Small and Symbolically Huge 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Blood is relatively easy to get, but lopping off an arm or sticking a needle into a living person's heart or liver is no trivial undertaking. Genes remain active after death 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The drop was swift: Prices for bitcoin and dozens of other digital currencies on Jan. 8 fell sharply, lopping more than $100 billion off their collective market value. The Programmer at the Center of a $100 Billion Crypto Storm 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The question is: at what point would someone lop off their arm and replace it with something bionic? When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Anaesthesia only saw deaths shoot up, as increasingly brave surgeons lopped more off their pain-free patients. ‘Have you seen the maggots yet?’ Lindsey Fitzharris on the gruesome history of surgery 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Four weeks ago, he nearly lopped off the tops of his first two fingers on his left hand with an electric hedge trimmer doing yard work at his home in Hilton Head, S.C. Jumped off the Jason Day bandwagon, have you? The Aussie wants to make you regret it - Golf Digest 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z For Republicans, that means writing language into their tax bill lopping trillions off defense spending. Opinion | The GOP tax plan is ridiculous. Here’s why. 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z It was necessary to lop some veterans off the top of the roster, manage the cap, stay young and improve the overall talent. Perspective | Is Rams game a must-win for Redskins? That’s ridiculous . . . but not really. 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Vanilla-blond hair falls in a soft wave, lopped off at shoulder blade height. Donatella Versace: "My brother was the king, and my whole world had crashed around me” 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z But the new count also lopped 4-5% off Pakistan’s GDP per person, the arithmetic consequence of revealing so many more people. Bangladesh’s GDP per person is now higher than Pakistan’s 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The Islamic State radicals of Raqqa lopped off the head of a teenager caught listening to Western music. Opinion | Liberals and conservatives must stand together against the extremes 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Vishnu lopped off the demon’s head before the liquid passed his throat, so his immortal head travels around the heavens chasing the sun and moon for revenge. ‘There’s no power on Earth that can stop this’ 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Green arrives as the Trump administration proposes lopping off almost a third of the budget of the State Department and almost 40 percent from USAID, a $10 billion cut, to $15.4 billion. A foreign assistance philosophy for an era of limited resources 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The Knight Institute has been spared a presidential blockade but says its “right to hear” political commentary and dissent is impinged whenever Mr Trump lops off another quarrelsome user. Twitter users sue Donald Trump for excluding them 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The Senate on Thursday ignored President Trump’s desire to lop more than 30,000 workers from the federal payroll, approving legislation that protects the Federal Aviation Administration from being split in two. Senate ignores Trump, moves bill that keeps FAA intact 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z “It’s also not good business to have people lopping off heads and using your company as part of that terrorist mechanism.” Counter-terrorism was never meant to be Silicon Valley's job. Is that why it's failing? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Virginia shooting guard Kyle Guy lopped off his trademark man bun but says he might grow it back some day. These guys won’t say which parent they like better 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Long ago, lopping off mountaintops and strip mining, requiring machines instead of humans, erased good mining jobs. Donald Trump has ditched the world in favor of Big Oil's titans | Jill Abramson 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z They have come down largely on the side of rewarding merit, a decision that will lop thousands more off the college bill for Elgendi’s family. Florida’s Bright Futures program aids scholars 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z He lops a total of $1.7 trillion off that and similar programs, including food stamps, school lunches and Habitat for Humanity. Perspective | Trump’s budget is so cruel a Russian propaganda outfit set the White House straight 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z But it also lops off one of the advantages of Windows: compatibility with the millions of applications written for the operating system over the years. Microsoft going back to school with new version of Windows 10, Surface Laptop 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Doing that could lop $1.3 million off the authority’s running costs. Land and money on table for Fort Monroe board meets 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Instead, Nemo-Q records people counting from, say, one to 12, then lops off the numbers they don’t need. Perspective | Crikey! Why does an English woman address customers at the Georgetown DMV? 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The filmmakers have lopped off the “Mighty Morphin” from the title, reshuffled a few character ethnicities and stirred some wisecracking millennial attitude into the mix. What a onetime 'Power Rangers' fan turned film critic says about the new movie 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z President Trump’s support for a plan to lop more than 30,000 Federal Aviation Administration workers from the federal payroll gives fresh momentum to an effort that stalled in Congress last year. White House endorses plan to remove 30,000 FAA workers from federal payroll 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The Trump administration wants to lop off another 14.1 percent from the Internal Revenue Service’s budget, according to a recent New York Times report. Opinion | Trump’s gift to Americans: Making it easier to cheat on their taxes 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z At one point, he suggested lopping off part of the District and folding it into Maryland. Eleanor Holmes Norton to introduce statehood bill, lacks GOP support 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z And that lopped a seventh off the price. How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world - BBC News 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Open because he lopped off his finger in my truck. Undercover Tour Pro: Toys In The Truck - Golf Digest 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z At one point, he suggested lopping off part of the District and folding it into Maryland, sending the committee into a tizzy. GOP House chair: Maybe we should cut off part of D.C. and send it back to Maryland 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z He has since nailed himself to Red Square, wrapped himself in barbed wire and lopped off an earlobe while sitting naked on the wall of a psychiatric institute. Russian artist Pavlensky 'to seek French asylum' amid sex claim - BBC News 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z To do so, each team had to first figure out how to stabilize the stalk after lopping off the head. There may someday be a way to avoid the yearly flu shot 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z “There has to be some decision about lopping off some of the branches,” said F. Gregory Gause III, a Middle East specialist at the Texas A&M University Bush School of Government and Public Service. Saudi Royal Family Is Still Spending in an Age of Austerity 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Her first attempt to challenge this idea came at the age of four when she burned all her dresses in the backyard and lopped off her hair with a pair of sewing scissors. 'I'm moving to Canada': the cops, pop stars and athletes who made good on the threat 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The Florentines usually asserted their power over the local nobles by ordering them to lop off their towers. San Gimignano: Tower power in Tuscany 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z According to a 2012 report in the Guardian, government documents revealed that one group of security agents had “lopped off the limbs of suspects and fed prisoners with their own flesh”. India’s crackdown in Kashmir: is this the world’s first mass blinding? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z So the sculptor lopped off more than 20 feet. St. Vladimir, all 60 feet of him, rises near the Kremlin 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Dodson’s wife, Pat, said one of the possible solutions proposed by an engineer who homeowners have consulted is to lessen the weight of the building by lopping off the top 20 floors. In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Dispute 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z They could have lopped off that entire opening focused on her, and viewers would never have noticed. Blu-ray review: ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The alliance is urging the city to put a limit of 260 feet on building height in the area, which, if enacted, would require Bauhouse to lop many stories off the building’s top. New York’s Stalled Residential Construction 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z News of the Tesla deal sent SolarCity's shares soaring 25 percent in after-hours trading on June 21, and lopped more than $2.8 billion in market value off Tesla the next day. Big U.S. investors strive for edge in private CEO meetings 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z They were a tough bunch, especially early on, when enemies were beheaded, impaled through the rectum and disemboweled — not necessarily in that order, as lopping off someone’s head first was considered a form of mercy. ‘The Romanovs’: The family that ruled and terrorized Russia 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Credit agency Fitch swiftly followed, lopping the UK’s rating from AA+ to AA. Brexit live: Cameron faces EU leaders for first time since vote to leave 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Since then he's nailed himself to Red Square by the scrotum, wrapped himself in barbed wire and leaped naked onto the wall of a psychiatric institute to lop off his earlobe. Pavlensky Russian trial: Bizarre case of performance artist - BBC News 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Despite the galloping inflation that resulted in zeroes being regularly lopped off the currency and an authoritarian regime that brooked little public dissent, many considered Brazil to be the "country of the future." Brazil: No Longer the Country of the Future? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z I note the quick Google definitions are lopping off the last two words, "by men," which dilutes the force. Armchair Feminism and the Media Chorus 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z That echoed a gloomy survey of manufacturers from the Bank of Japan which found sentiment at its darkest in nearly three years, a result that lopped 3 percent off the Nikkei .N225. China factories scent hint of Spring, Japan feels chill 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Credit agency Fitch swiftly followed, lopping the UK’s rating from AA+ to AA. Brexit live: Cameron faces EU leaders for first time since vote to leave 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z She’s lopped seconds off her time every year since she started running seriously. Zika’s terrifying path 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Successive generations have lopped off the final step of the traditional "pre-drinks at home, drinks in a bar or pub, then club" night out. Whatever happened to the Great British nightclub? - BBC News 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Otherwise, no strength you muster will break it, Nor the hardest forged blade lop it off. Seamus Heaney’s final work – ‘Death’s dark door stands open … ’ 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z There are £63bn worth of notes in circulation in the UK: if you wanted to lop 1% off that, you could simply cancel half of all fivers without warning. Crime, terrorism and tax evasion: why banks are waging war on cash | Paul Mason 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z At least 15,000 employees would need to be lopped off to get the kind of cost savings the deal needed to thrive. Carly Fiorina: Pushing ahead and paying a price 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z These men lopped down the steps of Air Force One and got into the waiting limo, assuming they’d be riding with the President. Meet the Obama White House's 'Smurfettes' 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z The University of California Hastings College of the Law began a program called Lawyers for America in 2011 that lops off the last year of academic classes. The 2-Year Law Education Fails to Take Off 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z The new agreement lopped five weeks from the off-season program, outlawed two-a-day sessions in training camp and tolerated only nominal physical contact. In N.F.L., Never Have So Many Been So-So 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z If you lop off the hero’s journey at the films’ core and leave just its cowboy shoot-o-ramas, then I’d argue yes. This Is the Next-Best Thing to Being in Star Wars 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Sean Bean managed to get through the first season of "Legends" without getting his head lopped off, and now he's back in new episodes of the espionage drama. TV This Week Nov. 1 - 7: 'The 49th Annual CMA Awards' on ABC 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z In the face of low bar passage rates, the school lopped off its lowest 25 percent of students and recruited those with strong grade point averages and admissions test scores. Study Cites Lower Standards in Law School Admissions 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Casserly cautioned against an arbitrary limit, saying he is concerned that states would indiscriminately lop off tests to meet a federal testing cap. Study says standardized testing is overwhelming nation’s public schools 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z In December, his ships reached Hispaniola – the island that now hosts Haiti and the Dominican Republic – where he forced the natives to provide him gold; those who didn’t had their hands lopped off. Christopher Columbus was a lost sadist. There shouldn't be a holiday in his name | James Nevius 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z I’m drawn to the colors of fading blooms, which gardeners lop off all too soon. A Bouquet Inspired by a Morris Louis Canvas 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z I had it all lopped off into a pixie cut and dyed purple-black. 'Shaving my head led to my first orgasm': writers on their lives in hair 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Technically, the body part in question is Wood’s lower leg, lopped off a few inches below the knee, but “foot” somehow sounds funnier, even though, as Wood’s mother notes, “the tale was born of tragedy.” ‘Finders Keepers’ looks at the legal dispute over a severed leg 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z He makes amends with a frankly ridiculous return, leaving an old stager like Hewitt dazed and confused, and Jamie is on hand to put away his lopping effort. Davis Cup semi-final: Great Britain beat Australia in doubles – as it happened 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z The Memphis-based company lopped 20 cents off its earnings forecast for the year that began June 1. Anheuser seeks Miller merger; Senate eyes pay of Fannie, Freddie chiefs 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Green 4 does not mean lop off four lines at the bottom, I tell them. The Art of Omission 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z How else will they be able to break into Cardinal MacNamara’s cathedral manse, badger him for the Occido Lumen and lop off his infected head before he gives away the book’s location to the Master? 'The Strain' recap: Kelly and the Feelers attack in 'Intruders' 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z CVX -4.89 % , reported their worst profits from pumping oil and natural gas in more than a decade as low crude prices lopped off billions of dollars from their quarterly haul. Pain Worsens for Oil Giants Exxon and Chevron 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z He makes amends with a frankly ridiculous return, leaving an old stager like Hewitt dazed and confused, and Jamie is on hand to put away his lopping effort. Davis Cup semi-final: Great Britain beat Australia in doubles – as it happened 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z The most recent example occurred just 35 years ago, when Mount St. Helens exploded in a tremendous blast that killed 57 people and lopped more than 1,000 feet off the top of the peak. Notes from the underground 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z A forehand cross-court winner was like the lop of an ax. Serena Williams proves again that Maria Sharapova is no rival 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z With his razor-sharp saber he lopped off his superior’s head. The Gory Way Japanese Generals Ended Their Battle on Okinawa 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z A second, whose hands have been lopped off, gestures with gory stumps. A Papal Message That Spares No One 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z He may be less sentimental than Mr Jain when it comes to lopping off bits of the investment bank, which is one way to strengthen Deutsche’s balance-sheet without tapping shareholders for more money. In hole, still digging 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z It illustrates just how wrong Dany was to reopen the pits instead of following Daario’s advice to round up all the nobles and lop their heads off, or throw them in chains. 'Game Of Thrones' Season 5, Episode 9 Review: The Dance Of Dragons 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Ohio had 35 days of early voting until he signed a law last year lopping off a week. GOP says Clinton dividing Americans over voting rights 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Russia is using military force to lop off parts of a neighbor’s territory. Samantha Power to Grads: Start Changing the World By 'Acting As If' 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z A tree trimmer with a chain saw moved up and down the trunk of the London plane in a bucket one recent afternoon, lopping off rotted branches and pruning boughs hovering over the sidewalk. Fewer Limbs but Healthier Trees as New York’s Parks Budget Rebounds 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z This time, it lopped off a full percentage point, its largest cut since late 2008, the nadir of the global financial crisis. Skyward march 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Indeed, GE, the longest-lasting conglomerate, is shrinking by lopping off its financial arm. A zeal for deals 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Daryl and Aaron also find some bodies all lopped to pieces, very reminiscent of what we saw at Noah’s destroyed community. 'The Walking Dead' Season 5, Episode 15 Review: Try 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Simply put, I would have to lop 30 years off of my age to qualify as a millennial, which is the disposition of choice for Zuckerman and her edgy advertising company, Rockville-based HZDG. Do you speak millennial? If yes, an advertising job may be yours. 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Or perhaps just the most recent 2,000 years will get lopped off if lead residue becomes a marker. Nuclear Blasts May Prove Best Marker of Humanity's Geologic Record [In Photos] 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Last summer, during one remarkable nine-week span, she set five more world records — including lopping a full six seconds off her 1,500 mark — at the Pan Pacific Championships, where she won five golds. Katie Ledecky finishes high school career with Olympics, more world records in sight 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Women lop off a few years from their age; men a few pounds from their weight. The Arrival of the Wearable Dating App He said he believed that the new structure was a “huge improvement” over the warehouse, which, he added, “lopped off a lot more of the Brooklyn Bridge.” By Blocking View of the Brooklyn Bridge, a Building Incites a Battle 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z More and more years were tacked onto his sentence and he won’t be released until he’s well past his 100th birthday unless the Florida Commission on Offender Review lops decades off his release date. Fla. parole commission hears ‘prison Houdini’ case 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z And your fingers would get lopped off like so many pork sausages? New 'Star Wars' lightsabers have some technical problems, experts say 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z If employees dispute a tax claim or have a payment plan, “of course we’re not going to lop your head off,” he said. Chaffetz, incoming committee chair, seeks to fire ‘bad apples’ in federal workforce Hell, we lop off fingers for stupid tweets! Five undeniable truths we learned from the Ted Bishop Affair: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z The market reacted much as it did upon receiving similar news in February and May, lopping more than 10% off Twitter’s share price upon the open of trading Tuesday amid a handful of analyst downgrades. Twitter Might Be In Worse Shape Than You Think 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z You lop off limbs and heads with your katana with feverish abandon. 'Shadow Warrior' Review Part One: How Lo Wang Can You Go? (PS4) 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Gray remains sharply critical of the move, which essentially lopped planned funding in half. Key questions still surround planned opening of D.C. streetcar line With the first two months of the new season already taped, he decided to lop off the 'stache while the show is on another brief hiatus. Alex Trebek (and mustache) return for 31st season as 'Jeopardy!' host 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Thus, the larger 4 Series coupe is essentially the 3 Series sedan with two doors lopped off. BMW reveals all-new 2 Series convertibles 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z It never seems that lop sided that we needed to do something about it. Quotes from Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll from Friday press conference 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z In addition, jeanswear retailer Guess also plans to lop off 50 of its 488 stores in North America by the end of the current fiscal year. By 2020, Your Local Mall Could Look Very Different 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Then she moves on to more invasive techniques — lopping open ribs with a pair of pruning shears and emptying stomach contents with a soup ladle. Review: ‘Working Stiff,’ on life as a medical examiner, by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell The canal lopped 12,600km from the sea route between New York and San Francisco. Now for the next 100 years 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, Mr. Bolton — whose sea-otter mustache has come down a bit in recent years — famously said that several floors of the United Nations headquarters could be lopped off without being missed. Situation in Iraq Gives Bush Team Members Chance to Second-Guess 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Instead, they lopped just two hopefuls — Dallas and San Diego — and on Friday afternoon confirmed their finalists for a potential U.S. bid for the 2024 Games. Washington among four cities being considered for USOC’s 2024 Summer Games bid And in the mid-2000s, in a controversial move, the Remi Companies, a developer, proposed lopping off the smokestacks in favor of an apartment tower. Converting a Run-Down Yonkers Power Plant Into an Arts Complex 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The move essentially lopped in half planned spending related to 22 miles of streetcar lines through 2021, from $1.4 billion to $730 million, according to an updated administration analysis of council budget actions. Reports of the demise of Washington’s streetcar service are greatly exaggerated, many say But for now, the researchers advise salon goers to load up on sunscreen or wear UV-blocking gloves with the fingertips lopped off before going under the lamp. Some Nail Salon Dryers Bombard Skin With UV 2014-05-07T00:35:00Z “We may have to start lopping off services that are not economically rewarding,” said Doug Patten, Phoebe’s chief medical officer. In rural Georgia, federal health insurance marketplace proves unaffordable to many 2014-02-01T22:37:29Z "There's no solution in taking a big chunk of stores and lopping them off — that doesn't solve anybody's issue," Ullman said in the interview. Penney to close 33 stores, cut 2,000 jobs to stem losses 2014-01-16T00:31:23Z The change lops 700 pounds from the 5,000-pound truck, the nation’s best-selling vehicle for 32 years, allowing for smaller engines and better fuel economy without a loss of power, the company says. U.S. innovation boosted by Silicon Valley-Detroit team up 2014-01-13T16:09:30Z Yuzukosho, a paste of bright yuzu peel and burning chiles, bites playfully into the cool sweetness of a sea scallop lopped from its shell just a minute before it’s served, its edges still fluttering. Restaurant Review: Sushi Nakazawa in the West Village 2013-12-10T21:31:10Z A late Thanksgiving - the unofficial kickoff for holiday sales - has lopped six days off the gift-buying season. Analysis: U.S. retailers tread tight path in shortened holiday race 2013-11-11T05:08:41Z The move not only sets a higher price for the broadcast rights, but it also shortens the duration of the agreement to 2019, lopping three years off the existing deal. Cubs playing hardball with WGN-TV 2013-11-07T06:00:00Z Over a decade, sequester would lop $1.2 trillion from spending on programs - from the military to education and national parks. Sequester cuts in play in Washington funding battle 2013-09-27T19:27:54Z House Republicans say they also are looking at some tax provisions to possibly lop onto the debt limit bill. A wild week ahead as Senate confronts shutdown deadline 2013-09-23T05:06:43Z They then lopped off the crowns topping the fence surrounding the park and headed to Federal Hall to read the Declaration of Independence. Wall Street: A history of occupation 2013-09-17T19:56:00Z The last major crisis was in 2001, when electricity shortages lopped about a percentage point off of Brazil's economic growth and led millions of people to spend their nights by candlelight. Brazil Cools on Nuclear Power Plans; Favors Wind 2013-09-16T13:15:54.600Z The most drastic reduction occurred on 1 March, when across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration lopped 5% from the budgets of most government agencies. More cuts loom for US science 2013-09-12T13:50:49.960Z Many say it dispenses his $70M estate in a clumsy and ill-advised way that lops off $30M first for the IRS. Key Lessons From James Gandolfini's Will 2013-07-21T01:50:00Z Although they were not helped by losing the toss, and rain lopping 10 overs off their innings when it was 19 overs old, any sympathy evaporated amid a clutch of rash shots. India cruise to win over Pakistan 2013-06-15T18:49:38Z The former Enron chief executive has reached a deal with the Justice Department to lop off as much as a decade off his prison sentence, to 14 years, according to a court filing on Wednesday. DealBook: Enron’s Skilling Strikes Deal for Shorter Sentence 2013-05-08T18:54:45Z Could you lop a zero off your financing requirements if you decided to outsource the most capital-intensive parts of your business? How Not To Be the Next Bloodhound Technologies 2013-05-02T14:40:53Z But Obama proposes to lop only about $600 billion off projected borrowing over the next decade — trillions of dollars less than the austere, balanced-budget package that House Republicans endorsed earlier this year. Obama to unveil $3.77 trillion spending plan 2013-04-10T10:00:00Z That seems especially significant, given that the race distance was reduced by about half a furlong this year, which ought to have lopped five or six seconds off the time. Talking Horses: The best bets and latest news 2013-04-09T10:50:07Z His fizzing drive deflected off Schär to lop in under the crossbar. Tottenham 2-2 Basel 2013-04-04T21:13:00Z How aggressively we deal with cancer hinges in part on age and whether the disease threatens to truncate a life dramatically or merely lop off some years in the final decade or two. Cancer hasn’t dimmed my mother’s upbeat attitude. How far can optimism take her? 2013-04-01T20:55:02Z The U.S. military is in the process of making tough decisions due to mandatory budget from sequestration went into effect March 1 and could lop off $46 billion of Pentagon spending this fiscal year. Insight: Expensive F-35 fighter at risk of budget "death spiral" 2013-03-15T20:12:09Z Free extras can lop off the waiting time by five minutes—but only the last five minutes. Review: Game of Thrones Ascent 2013-03-14T16:43:18Z By contrast, in Greece, changes in government spending and taxes lopped more than 5 percent off of gross domestic product each year. Is Ireland an economic example or an exception for the euro zone? 2013-03-14T00:32:44Z Congress said a certain, roughly equivalent, amount had to be lopped off thousands of programs instead of making program-by-program choices. Analysis: The big U.S. budget cuts: Will the bite match the bark? 2013-03-01T06:03:13Z Weak holiday sales of Apple's iPhone helped to spark a selloff that lopped some $50 billion off the company's market capitalization in one day of trading last week. Fidelity Contrafund cut Apple stake 3 percent in December 2013-01-30T14:58:55Z They allow students to lop a year or two off the period of full-time education before they actually start earning. Britain's qualification spiral is beginning to unravel 2013-01-08T08:00:08Z Last year, Governor Scott and the state legislature lopped off another $300 million. Florida May Reduce Tuition for Select Majors 2012-12-09T23:07:30Z The across-the board spending cut, known as sequestration, would lop about $54 billion from U.S. national security spending with purchases of weapons nipped, the trade group said, an estimated 10.3 percent. U.S. aerospace industry projects tenth straight growth year 2012-12-05T17:28:30Z To get the higher figure down to 120 percent of GDP requires lopping the best part of 50 billion euros of Greece's debt pile. EU, IMF clash over Greece reignites debt crisis fears 2012-11-13T09:25:34Z UBS's board will meet Monday to weigh the plan, which would lop roughly 10,000 employees from the Swiss bank's total headcount over the next three to five years, the people said. UBS Plans 10,000 Job Cuts 2012-10-29T01:16:12Z If drug dealers were ruining urban America, he would ask a judge or law professor, what’s wrong with the Saudi solution of lopping off their hands? Op-Ed Contributor: Punch Sulzberger and His Times 2012-10-01T02:13:09Z If no agreement could be reached, the mandatory cuts of sequestration would then kick in at the start of 2013, lopping off $1.2 trillion more in cuts, split between national security and domestic programs. Could Sequestration Harm U.S. Military Power? 2012-09-24T18:35:36Z Subsidiaries are being lopped off and sold at fire-sale prices to more agile competitors, almost certainly on orders from the Kremlin. Cumbersome Gazprom losing its clout 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z For slacks, I buy 31 by 30 off the rack and take them to a girl in town who lops off five inches and tapers the legs. It's A Tough Game For Everyone: Brian Haack 2012-09-12T04:00:00Z "I thought they would just lop a little bit off," she said. Tree felled in error painted pink 2012-09-06T05:42:15Z Here Stuart comes closer to the modern realm, as the swordsmen fight not for blood, but, more sportingly, to lop buttons off the opponent’s shirt. Essay: When Poetry Was an Olympic Event 2012-08-11T17:33:14Z But the shares are down 16 percent in the first three days this week, lopping about $10 billion off Standard Chartered’s market value. Censure of Standard Chartered Draws Harrumphs in London 2012-08-08T18:56:04Z Susskind and his colleagues took the tree of parallel universes, lopped off some of its branches, and figured out how it would deform the p-adics. How Do You Count Parallel Universes? You Can't Just Go 1, 2, 3, ... 2012-08-06T22:15:04.737Z With a few exceptions – such as the now-discounted Samsung Galaxy Tabs – the 7-inch tablet range was characterized by mediocrity – cheap, resistive touchscreens, tiny batteries, versions of Android designed for phones with chunks inexpertly lopped off. Seven Inches, Four Months, A Number One Sales Target: How Asus Built The Nexus 7 2012-08-06T16:44:21Z Korea also released data on Tuesday showing industrial output fell four times more than expected, and Taiwan lopped a full percentage point off its forecast for economic growth this year. China labors, Asian exporters struggle 2012-08-01T07:06:07Z The traditional elements, then, are far from gone – players are still lopping the limbs off horrific enemies in a fight to survive, which is rather the point. Dead Space 3 – hands-on preview 2012-07-27T13:34:49Z On Friday morning, as the City was digesting the dramatic shift in Britain's pay-TV landscape by lopping points off BT's and Sky's share prices, Cumbria county council took a brave decision. BT gambles that Premier League deal will pay off faster than broadband 2012-06-16T23:03:24Z The International Monetary Fund estimates that a Greek exit from the euro would lop more than 10 percent from Greece’s gross domestic product for at least the first year following a return to the drachma. Greek Businesses Fear Switch From Euro to Drachma 2012-05-22T20:43:57Z Ms. Burden, however, balked at the design presented to her, and demanded that Mr. Nouvel lop 200 feet from the top. Amanda Burden, Planning Commissioner, Is Remaking New York City 2012-05-21T14:19:38Z She cracked jokes and tracked down a woman in Brooklyn who would lop off Melissa’s dark brown hair and fashion it into a wig. My Sister, My Surrogate: After Battling Cancer, One Woman Receives the Ultimate Mother's Day Gift 2012-05-09T12:06:28Z The person, therefore, who had undertaken the task of reducing it should take care to begin at the remotest provinces, and not till after they were lopped off cut up the central portion. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z If Apple lopped off the home button, it would allow the company to make a device that was considerably smaller, without affecting the size of its beautiful screen. Bits Blog: Does the iPad Have One Button Too Many? 2012-04-02T14:55:00Z Her limbs and her head were lopped away, but life still fluttered at her heart. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z An ornamental knot, with projecting lops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Then he made a rough circular wall around the camp enclosure, using rails and sleepers and a number of trucks, defending the whole circuit with a chevaux-de-frise made of branches lopped from the neighbouring woods. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z The branches should not be lopped in spring, on account of their tendency to bleed at that season. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Gradually they were breaking the organization, lopping off a branch here and there, but the peace of the future depended upon getting a grip on the spine of the cobra himself. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z Each year these trees were lopped, and new sprouts and branches permitted to grow only in the line of the hedge. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The tall gentleman, having lopped and picked at her bidding, gathered up the last scraps of the hawthorn which he had ruthlessly broken from the tree. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z The following afternoon I landed to examine the Tower Rock, a very conspicuous object, on the south side of this harbour, having the appearance of an enormous dead tree with its branches lopped off. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Sometimes they were lopped on one side, or made to take some peculiarity of shape that would distinguish them from all others. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z A torrent of water was at once directed into the window, while a second stream splashed down upon the tree and made a watery shield for the fireman, who went on lopping off the limbs. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z With their hatchets they lopped off the branches; they bound the trunks together with leathern thongs taken from the mules, and with tendrils of creepers from the jungle. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z The road was bordered with trees, as is generally the case here; we observed Celtis occidentalis, Lombardy poplars, partly lopped, and not growing to any great height. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z It is almost like Herakles and the hydra: lop one problem off and more grow in its place. Between Lots of Rocks and Hard Places: Greece's Bad Options 2012-02-07T10:20:00Z Orlop, or′lop, n. the deck below the berth-deck in a ship where the cables, &c., are stowed. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Part of the financing package, Greece’s second in less than two years, entails a debt swap with private creditors that will lop 100 billion euros off the privately-held 200 billion euros of Greek debt. Papademos Gets Domestic Support on Greek Debt, Troika Talks 2012-01-29T17:02:01Z The savages, on the other hand, cut down all the trees, let them dry as they fell, and then, setting the whole alight, reduced it at once to ashes, without any clearing, lopping, or piling. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z It endured centuries of nasty hurricanes, including one in 1925 that lopped off 40 feet from the top. Disbelief Still as Florida Reacts to Burning of 3,500-Year-Old Tree 2012-01-21T03:00:12Z It is well, certainly, now and then, to lop off some rank, disorderly shoots of licentiousness, that will sometimes appear, upon Liberty Tree. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Polled, deprived of a poll: lopped: cropped, hence bald: having cast the horns, hence wanting horns.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z The trunk of a great tree overthrown in the last year's autumnal gales, with some of its boughs lopped off, lay on the grass at the edge of the avenue. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z They had to be lopped, and transplanted, and irrigated, and finally picked and stored. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z Death in those few months was busy lopping off the crowned heads of Europe, as if to clear the scene for two great figures. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z One of the chief forms of mourning for the dead was to lop off the little finger of one of the hands. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z As year by year the labourer tills His wonted glebe, or lops the glades, And year by year our memory fades From all the circle of the hills. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z The flags said, "We have stopped"; and again we waited, lopping and rolling, as the anchor plashed away into the blue sea at eleven fathoms. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z Some said it could lop as much as 1 percentage point off economic growth. Senate passes payroll tax cut, spending bill 2011-12-18T01:22:36Z "Where are they going at such speed?" thought the few spectators whom they passed on their way—spectators whom nothing escapes: innkeepers standing at their doors, tramps on the highway, peasants lopping the trees. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z Fire and sword would not be amiss to lop them from off the trunk of the life-giving tree our mother Holy Church. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z As there was a couple of feet of “lop” even there, this was rather a nice operation. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z The sickle, tired of encountering obstacles, had lopped off one of the clenched hands at a blow. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z The trees are felled, the branches lopped off, and the trunks stripped of their bark, which is kept and applied to many useful purposes. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z Such cuts would lop as much as 2 percentage points off growth in the first quarter of 2013, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Both Parties Set to Use Failure of Debt Deal for 2012 Campaign 2011-11-22T05:41:29Z Spending cuts triggered by lack of a budget plan would lop as much as 2 percentage points off growth in the first quarter of 2013, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Treasuries Rising Most Since 2008 as Budget Paralysis Seen 2011-11-21T02:52:43Z He was so good and kind all the way I had no care or worry, but just lopped round and let him do all the work. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z These firms are steadily becoming primarily marketing agencies and brands: they are lopping off the expertise that is needed to make anything anymore. Clayton Christensen: How Pursuit Of Profits Kills Innovation And The US Economy 2011-11-18T16:26:00Z Last year, health workers refused to answer phones from the public for a period after the state lopped about 6 percent off their pay. Swallowing Austerity Turns Into Irish Way as Strikes Grip South 2011-11-11T00:39:43Z The share decline on Thursday was the biggest daily fall in more than three years and lopped off around $1 billion from the company's market value. UPDATE 6-LG plans $945 mln share sale to prop up smartphones 2011-11-03T10:33:53Z It's lopped off nearly 2 billion euros in annual spending under Viehbacher, and he just announced plans to cut another 2 billion euros by 2015. 3 years in, Sanofi CEO has transformed drugmaker 2011-10-28T13:16:20Z The yew, moreover, was thinned at intervals, but there was no cutting and lopping the forward-thrusting, amusing humanity across the way. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Jerking the ax from its sheath she set to work lopping branches from the dead tree. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z Bernard, too, lopped off races at tracks where attendance lagged, including at Watkins Glen, N.Y., and restored a race at Belle Isle in Detroit. A Driver?s Death Has Raised Questions About IndyCar?s Leader 2011-10-22T19:58:18Z We resent the displacement of a chair, or the lopping of one of the cedar's boughs, and we note the new tool-shed with an alien eye. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Their thinner branches were lopped off, the thicker ones cut and trimmed with sharp points towards the front. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z But they balk when asked to name specific programs to downsize or lop off. The Hidden Utility of Ron Paul’s Balanced-Budget Plan: View 2011-10-19T00:28:02Z Boniface's son and heir was a mere infant; during his minority the lands of his kingdom were lopped away, one after another, by the Greek despot of Epirus, the able Theodore Angelus. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z The lopped limbs have gone to the woodpile, and the boards will be dressed and polished and used for the woodwork of the new house. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z No doubt the wicked children lop off their own hands in order to cast a slur upon “the benevolent and philanthropic enterprise of the Congo.” The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z In lopping the tree the peasants are careful to leave a branch that extends out from the trunk above the hole where the bees have constructed their hive. The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest 2011-10-13T02:00:39.777Z Wings lopped in twain, and broken arrows, whirl Athwart the sky. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z If we do so in speaking, surely we may lop off the many vowels and the consonants and speak, conversationally—on several tones. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z We lopped off some of the branches and burnt off the rest, but then found that the trunks were too heavy for us to drag, even though it was downhill. Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z They might lop off a few of the branches; but science, a knowledge of physiology alone, is capable of laying the axe at the root of the tree.—What is digestion, Ellinora? Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z Legislatures in Georgia, Tennessee and West Virginia also lopped off advanced-voting time. With 2012 elections approaching, Republican-controlled state legislatures rewrite voting rules 2011-09-19T08:44:53Z On this day dignified and confident executives wriggled and wilted like tardy schoolboys under his grilling, and official heads were lopped off with a few sharp words. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z There were rumours rife concerning the summer campaign, and how the British had a plan to behead our new United States by lopping off all New England. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Congress has already lopped some $8 billion off Obama's request for the State Department and U.S. foreign aid this year as part of a deal with the White House to keep the U.S. government running. Obama's "smart power" plan risks death of 1,000 cuts 2011-09-07T06:29:45Z His ears were small and lopped over gracefully, his nose was both flat and broad, and his eyes did not look a bit more conciliatory in the light than they did in the semi-darkness. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z He was carried below, and the surgeon made short work in lopping off the limb. Jack Buntline 2011-08-31T02:01:34.270Z Wind and seas on the port quarter, and the large following billows occasionally lopping inboard as she rolled. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z That means circulation falls faster than ever, which in turn lops away advertising cash. The future may be online, but many will slip through the net 2011-08-27T23:04:05Z It is as mad in those who possess authority to countenance revolution, as for a man seated on a lofty branch to lop it off with his own hands. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z Sometimes they have sentenced innocent persons twice, once to have their ears cut and be banished, and after the lopping of their ears, some have been re-examined, and sentenced to death, and execute. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z One pair was grey and lopped with age, but the second pair was adorable, and he made up his mind quickly. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z “I’ve never seen her as dirty as this,” grumbled the chief engineer apologetically, peeping from his cabin at cold green water lopping over casually on to the after deck. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z “Now, Gentlemen, how much shall we say for this Chip, which I lopped off when I was leaving Hawarden—when I was ‘cutting my stick,’ in fact.” Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 2011-08-20T02:00:11.307Z These populations were to the Christian Church like a cankered limb, the lopping off of which may have been ordained by an all-wise Providence for the salvation of what was yet sound in the body.—H. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z The three main alternatives—fluorescents, LEDs, and a new technology called electron-stimulated luminescence—all emit light by causing a phosphor to glow at certain wavelengths, lopping off the tail. How Optical Illusions Can Build a Better Bulb 2011-08-18T23:45:05.210Z On Thursday, crews methodically picked their way through hundreds of acres of dense underbrush — lopping off oil-stained plants and tree branches with hand clippers and then hauling the material away in plastic bags. Exxon Mobil says efforts to clean up Yellowstone River after oil spill will last into fall 2011-08-18T20:40:09Z When practised, however, the operation could scarcely be called pruning; lopping or trimming would be more accurate descriptions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z At the same time, Cameron was insistent that his plan to lop 20% off Scotland Yard's budget over the next four years – furloughing as many as 16,000 cops – would remain in place. After the Riots: the Economic Cost of London's Mayhem 2011-08-12T08:01:58Z The young reptile in her abdomen is missing a few bones, and he suspects that Poly lopped them off when she started to chow down. Sea Monster Had a Bun in the Oven 2011-08-11T19:30:33Z Winds in the east, lop on the sea, fog in the sky, ice in the water, colds on the chest, boils on the wrists; but nar’ a fish in the hold! Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z “Believe me, as Joe says, the fellow is one of those fungi attached to society that would much better be lopped off than allowed to develop and spread their vile spawn about.” The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z For the ears of Saunders were growing long and lop like a rabbit's, with sheer intensity of listening. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z The moratorium, now lifted, in the gulf had lopped 50,000 barrels off Shell's expected production volumes in the second quarter, while asset sales added to the problem. Profits soar at Shell 2011-07-28T18:12:51Z Here is another power, long used, and now lopped off. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z A wave—the lop raised by the wind—broke over the pan. Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z He was just a plain yellow dog, with a lop ear and a habit of wagging all over when he could not get enough expression in his stump of a tail. Conscript 2989 Experiences of a Drafted Man 2011-07-26T02:00:15.197Z The trees were again brought round to their former position, and the limbs by which themselves had gained entrance lopped off. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z Paddling up with caution, they lopped off one of its arms. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z And this power, too, thus lopped off from the Constitution, is evidently not within the power of any of the individual States. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z This syrup is obtained by cutting down the tree, and lopping off its crown of leaves, when the sap flows from the wound, and is carefully collected. The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z But when animals learn, those excess limbs get lopped off until only a few critical connections remain. 'Language Protein' May Help Build Brain Circuits 2011-07-07T22:00:00Z My timber too I've lost, and have I been lopped of my branches for nothing? The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z You get all this talk of 'lopping' and 'chopping' but we are carrying out light pruning. Testing time 2011-07-05T08:43:34Z Then, lopped and topped, its trunk was dragged up to the spot where the chief stood, and where he had remained standing ever since issuing the order. The Yellow Chief 2011-07-05T02:00:27.013Z He spared their lives, but lopped off their legs and arms, that in less than a quarter of an hour there was not one in the company but had lost a limb. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z It was merely the top of a palm tree lopped off and forced into the ground. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z To lop off the surplus population with the sword is a benefit. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z An’ awful smart—an’ pretty before they lopped off their curls at the orphanage. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z Everything went down that he found either on the king's or his neighbour's ground; he did not stay to top or lop them, and there they lay like so many windfalls. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z After all, while antitrust action would lop off AT&T’s aspirations, there’s no particular reason why Sprint should get any windfall business. To Stimulate Economy, End Predatory Abuse Of Antitrust 2011-06-08T16:57:58Z There's a lop of a sea outside the breakwaters, and the five derricks we still have up sway dangerously—to say nothing of the funnel, the guys of which are yet adrift. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z Kent let it fall to the ground, where it lopped and lay. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z And the East Prussian pastor was a branch that must be lopped with the cleanest final cut before real submission could be said to have set in. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z "On one side of the table, you've got a designer who says, 'You can't destroy my beautiful product by lopping the watch pocket off,'" says Brown. Cost-Cutting Is Rampant in Fashion 2011-05-26T21:00:00Z Coal companies lop off mountaintops, hydraulic fracturing for natural gas threatens supplies, and oil dependence undermines the nation’s energy security. Coming Clean about Nuclear Power 2011-05-23T13:15:00.303Z The weather was clear, blowing a bit, and a good lop of following sea. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z He was dressed in a soiled and somewhat patched suit of butternut jeans, topped off with a wide rimmed wool hat, wonderfully battered, and lopped in every conceivable way. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z "But I'll tell you what I will do," he went on, as the gang lopped down despondently. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Hewlett-Packard Co.’s consumer PC sales plunged 23 percent last quarter, and the company lopped $1 billion off its annual sales forecast. Apple IPad’s ‘Buzz Saw’ Success Cuts Into PC Sales at HP, Dell 2011-05-18T04:57:57Z Beneath this avenging stroke of Fate his big, sinister hulk lopped down, and he stood stupidly licking his cracked lips like a spiritless dog. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z In due course we reached Mackay, where there was a lop of a sea alongside, sufficient to keep the tenders rolling and bumping, and prevented the side ladder from being lowered. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z The third factor contributing to reduce fire danger was the provision of the new law requiring the lopping of tops of all coniferous trees felled in the forest preserve. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z A series of muttered comments marked this sudden turn to the west, and the tall, cigarette-smoking youth who had been rubbing the sleep from his eyes lopped down beneath his salt-bush again. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z The most immediate effect has been on companies that sell goods in Japan, like Coca-Cola and Gap, which said the events there had lopped off a few cents from earnings per share. Japan?s Crises Make a Dent in the Bottom Line 2011-04-28T23:55:49Z They had just felled three big pines, and the new-cut butts showed white among the masses of lopped branches. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Portland’s mascot, Timber Joey, uses a chainsaw to lop off a piece of a log after the team scores at Jeld-Wen Field. Goal: Expansion Timbers Take Their Cuts 2011-04-20T02:26:08Z So, accordingly, he pulled up a fir tree, and, after lopping off the roots and branches, made a walking-stick of it, and set out on his way to Oonagh. Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:15.367Z He dropped his head, his reddish-brown curls lopped over his wide brow. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z |
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