Word: chocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scared to death last year," said the blondish 115-pound sophomore, leaning forward from the couch in his chock-full living room in Winthrop House...
Politics Ahead? One of Robinson's most interesting roles is that of budding Republican politician. Two years ago, he quit his $50,000-a-year vice-presidency of the Chock Full O' Nuts restaurant chain to help Governor Nelson Rockefeller in his bid for the presidential nomination. Today Rockefeller has five private telephone lines in his office-one of which runs to the office of Robinson, who is his special assistant for community relations, on Rocky's personal payroll. Many of his associates believe that not business but politics will be the major future pursuit of Jack...
...River estate. At Olana (thought to be a corruption of the Arabic meaning "our place on high"), Church once again spoke superbly for his age. An eclectic marvel combining elements of Italian villa, Gothic revival, Ruskinian Venetian, French mansard, the mansion stands amid 327 acres of woods and meadow, chock-full of Oriental rugs, Thonet chairs, Tiffany glass and Persian tiles...
...been discussed by physiologists, analyzed by psychologists, investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, and interviewed by newsmen, by his count, "more than 5,000" times. The body of literature devoted to his life and exploits runs to perhaps 2,000,000 words of prose and 200 of poetry, chock-full of such fascinating revelations as that he sleeps naked, trims his beard with fingernail scissors, has an IQ of 127 and hates the nickname "Wilt the Stilt." No one has seemed able to agree on two fairly important and somewhat related points about Wilt Chamberlain: 1) how tall...
Malcolm (Matthew Cowles) is a 15-year-old who looks like frosting and is chock-full of Innocence. A kind of satanic hotelier takes him in tow and dispatches him, like one of nature's naivest bellboys, to the fetid rooms of earthly existence. Along the way, there is a series of symbolic betrayals: by friendship (in the person of an ancient coot in a Confederate uniform); by wealth (in the form of an alcoholic hag and her fluttery entourage of butterfly boys); by art (as represented by a seedy writer-painter couple); and by sex in the nymphomaniacal...