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Word: chucked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inevitable happened. Chuck Luckman turned up in Hollywood to preach his save-food doctrine and witness the start of the "Friendship Train," a cross-country stunt to collect food donated for hungry Europe. Surrounded by the great and near-great of Hollywood, he watched the ceremonies center on a flag-painted collection of boxcars, loaded only with movie stars and searchlight generators. Then, after the famous names had gone home, the real train started out of Glendale station, hauling twelve carloads of wheat, flour, canned milk and a soybean by-product called Multi-Purpose Food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicken Every Thursday | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Heading toward New York, the train began to snowball. At each stop it picked up new carloads. By the end of the second day, it had more than tripled in size. The Friendship Train was not Chuck Luckman's idea. It had been born in the mind of Columnist Drew Pearson as a good-will gesture from the people of the U.S. to the people of Europe. But it would help Luckman's program indirectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicken Every Thursday | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...take Chuck Luckman long to make up his mind. It had become increasingly evident that eggless and poultryless days were pulling in opposite directions. As long as poultrymen could not sell their chickens (whose eggs were not wanted), they had simply held on to them-and fed them. Wriggling gratefully off the spot, Luckman announced that the nation could have chicken every Thursday, so long as Thursday was eggless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicken Every Thursday | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...defense, the line and the backers up drew plaudits as guards Feinberg and Dravaric piled things up in the middle with guest and center Chuck Glynn, still sporting an encased writs, generally beat ball carriers to holes in, the line and disposed of them. Mel Friedman, half-time Jayvee, sometime Varsity replacement, put in a full afternoon at backer-up and as a replacement for Kenary on running plays...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Harlow Preps Varsity in 45 Minute Grind | 11/12/1947 | See Source »

...game command, for fear of the Princeton close-lateral that puzzled Pennsylvania. Faced with that lineup, Caldwell simply sent his men through the center. Passing was little better than mediocre in the damp atmosphere except for Princeton's second tally, on which wing George Sella ran straight past defender Chuck Roche, took Dick Weat's 55-yard pass on the 12 and went on across

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Tiger Rout throws Pall Over Gridiron Prospect | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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