Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jefferson City, a place for even tougher guys? As the words grew angrier, one of the boys grabbed Rolland Barton, 15, from behind, crooked one arm around his neck and held on for ten minutes. When the body grew limp, he and the third boy tossed it on the bunk, tore strips from a blanket and cinched them around their victim's neck to finish the job. In a final fury they showered blows on the unconscious body. It was not necessary. Rolland Barton was dead...
Placement tests, English A anticipatories, and VA mass meetings, as well as bunk-filled gymnasiums, have abandoned winter registrations, since only three new men have been admitted for the spring term...
...about this Brave New World in 1932, Aldous Huxley described the human hatching & conditioning centers, where everyone was taught his place. The highest were a super class of executives known as Alphas, the lowest were Epsilons, or sewer workers, who were taught Ford's memorable words: "History is bunk...
...boat understood Spanish, but they all stared fascinated at the table where the two men sat, meal after meal, fighting it out with high words and bitter tears. Finally the two asked for separate tables and Rivera, shaken by the fury of the quarrel, took to his bunk. Says Siqueiros, "When we reached Veracruz there were two delegations at the pier. One was composed of Rivera's friends, and they took him to Mexico City in style. The other was a delegation of police, and they took me to jail...
...quit high school to play piano and sing in a band in which her father played bass, and Bunk Johnson played cornet. Hollywood has been hearing her in nightclubs for the past five years, but Nellie didn't really begin to catch on until Capitol recorded her He's a Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down and You Better Watch Yourself, Bub. Her first two records have already sold nearly a million copies. Last week Nellie, now 32, received Broadway's final tribute to a popular singer, Tin Pan Alley's rough equivalent to a Stalin...