Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abandoned. Oddly, in a chain with McDonald's passion for standardization, licensees get neither food nor supplies from Oak Brook. Restaurants buy their own, mostly through regional cooperatives, though naturally the purchases must meet rigid headquarters specifications. The basic hamburger patty must be a machine-cut, 1.6-oz. chunk of "pure" beef - that is, no lungs, hearts, cereal, soybeans or other filler - with no more than 19% fat content, v. 30% for some competing ham burgers. The 3½-in.-wide bun must have a higher-than-normal sugar content for faster browning...
Even more disturbing is that some quick-buckers have started on the satire routine. Here's a juicy line from Ludwig von Wolfgang Vulture: "Now one of the flock would dip down in a 61/2-point inverted roll and tear off a chunk of the festering flesh of the decaying cow or sow, the flesh already gone black, squirming with blind maggots." And here's the twist: Ludwig gets hooked on speed reading and expects a Fulbright or Rhodes; instead he gets banished. Or try this for satire: "He knew that perfect speed is never having to say you're slow...
...addition, surprise blizzards this spring cut a multimillion-dollar chunk out of livestock herds in the Rockies and Midwest. Iowa alone suffered a loss of 100,000 cattle and 44,000 hogs, worth $30 million. Snowfall and tornadoes cut peach crops in Georgia and South Carolina by 50% or more...
Bicycle and automobile thefts continue to rise at phenomenal rates, although no exact figures can possibly be obtained. At least 56 cars were reported stolen last year and the number of bicycle thefts probably has hit a large chunk of the student body. Many students have had two and three bikes stolen from them, no matter what type of chain, lock or storage place they have used...
...years he has been a considerable chunk of Richard Nixon's better nature. And that role is coming...