Word: chunk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three children) who has no time for slinky blondes. But otherwise, Tom is up to fictional standards. He is a proven skullbasher: in Italy's first chaotic postwar days he tangled with the Communists in (by his own estimate) 1,300 street brawls, mowing them down with a chunk of railroad track. And he has cold nerve: when two madmen terrorized a school full of children near Milan in 1956, Tom defied the maniacs' gunfire, closed in to capture them...
...Hollywood's infinite rack. The next, they were TV's own beef trust. Their teeth were glittering, their biceps bulging, their pistols blazing right there in the living room; it was more fun, as they say in Texas, than raisin' hell and puttin' a chunk under...
...even if it could survive a debate on the scale of that which accompanied the first such proposal in 1953 and 1954, would cost a chunk of cash. The Cordiner pay scale contemplated a first-year increase in expenditure of $650 million, though the committee thought that in four to six years the plan would decrease in expense and might even be cheaper than the present system in the long...
...afford to stay in business only by setting up a new company for each movie, then quickly dissolving it one jump ahead of the creditors. Chief reason: most of the movie capital comes from tightfisted film distributors-and the distributors are in turn bilked by the exhibitors, whose 33% chunk of total movie revenue is topped only by the government's 36%. For a producer, only about 8% remains before he even pays off costs...
...decision will be made by taking a galaxy census in a large chunk of space so distant that the galaxies in it are seen on earth as they were 5 or 6 billion years ago. If the galaxies prove to be crowded closer together than they are in the section of space near the earth, the primeval atom will have won the contest-since, according to the cosmic evolutionary theory, the universe was much smaller 6 billion years ago and its galaxies were therefore closer together...