Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passenger on the Hong Kong-Macao ferry last week was as weather-beaten, ageless and nondescript as a chunk of driftwood. Like the driftwood, he seemed doomed to float from shore to shore on the China Sea forever. He had no passport. His name, he said, is Michael Patrick O'Brien, but he readily admitted: "Back home in Washington and Oregon, they call me Steven Stanley Regan." He never knew his father; his mother was Hungarian; the only identification he possesses is a Red Cross certificate which calls him "a stateless Irishman...
...truly conservative party like Constitutional party can appeal to the nation can this debate be resolved. One national election will be enough to tell whether the Constitutional party represents a small group of Americans born fifty years to late, or whether it represents the feelings of a hefty chunk of the electorate. If the last is true the Constitution Party may well replace the Republican in our two-party system...
When Eastern Air Lines' Captain Eddie Rickenbacker offered to pay $100 million for 35 Comet jet transports (TIME, Sept. 8), it seemed to be a golden opportunity for the British to grab a big chunk of the U.S. commercial plane market. But last week it looked as if the British had muffed...
...cocktail parties. He steered a sightseeing boat in the Harlem River at the invitation of its skipper. He inspected a 50-million-barrel-a-year oil refinery in New Jersey, was told that it handles 50 times more oil than his whole country produces, and was handed a chunk of hot synthetic rubber. He was flown from New York to Washington, was taken to the White House for lunch with the President. Among the guests were both Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Harry Vaughan. The King shook hands and smiled, impartially...
Another huge chunk of the president time is taken up with his activities in behalf of non-Harvard causes, educational and otherwise. While not considering himself the spokesman for American education. Conant feels the president of Harvard should speak up frankly on questions on which he either has very strong opinions or feels he is particularly well-informed. A man of strong opinions and particularly well-informed on a multitude of subjects. Conant has thrown himself into many national controversies with an enthusiasm matched only by the information and foresight behind...