Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senegal and the swamps of the Niger. The new kingdom of Morocco occupies about a fifth of this old Almoravide empire. The remainder of the area is divided between Spain's Rio de Oro, a corner of Algeria, the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles north of legendary Timbuktu. Except for the coastal strip it is sun-scorched desert, rich in minerals, which the French, since they finally subdued the tribes in 1934, have mapped but have hardly tapped...
Danny Kaye is not only brilliantly funny but unusually charming. He makes entertainment out of nearly anything. Yet he has--out of generosity or misplaced admiration--given the first chunk of his program to a bunch of appallingly faded vaudeville acts. Since Mr. Kaye is offstage when they are on, nothing salvages the first hour of the show. One can only arrive late...
...Doren. "She knows everything!" Quiz Champ Van Doren was referring to his latest and ablest challenger in the gaming booths of Twenty One: Vivienne Nearing. 30. a blonde and pretty lawyer with a hard-candy smile who next week (NBC. Monday night at 9) threatens to chop a chunk out of Van Doren's $143,000 prize money...
...create a chunk of space on earth, California's Litton Industries Inc. has developed a vacuum chamber big enough to hold a man. The device can simulate conditions some 200 miles above the earth, where air molecules wander around as individual particles, not as a gas. Wearing a space suit, a scientist eventually will enter the vacuum and experiment with such puzzling problems as the behavior of lubricants in space, and the reaction of a model satellite, minus a protective cushion of air, to sunlight. X rays and ultraviolet rays beamed in through portholes in the chamber...
...Fawny May, a cotton farmer's daughter. Trouble is that Fawny is a born homemaker. Looking at the rich soil around the deserted house she wants them to buy, she exclaims: "Plant you a teacup handle here, next dinnertime you'd cut a set of china." Uncle Chunk has long since warned Polk: "A rolling stone don't gather no mortgages." So off they roll, to the Southwest, to California, wherever a crop is making. Author Williams' world is an inevitable reminder of John Steinbeck's dustbowl refugees in The Grapes of Wrath...