Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BOSTON--An Air Canada DC-9 jetliner with 42 persons on board lost a four-foot chunk of fuselage over the North Atlantic yesterday, but the aircraft made a safe emergency landing at Logan Airport...
...wroth during a fight with an umpire that he literally tore up the rulebook. Recalls Weaver: "I said, 'If the rulebook doesn't mean anything, then let's just go ahead and tear it up.' And I did. Then I saw there was a chunk I missed, so I picked it up and tore...
Starting with Blue Cross in the 1930s, and continuing through the post-World War II trend for employers to provide medical insurance for their workers, private insurers have picked up a giant chunk of hospital-doctor bills. In 1965 Congress chipped in, providing Medicare payments for those over 65 and Medicaid assistance for the poor. There are still gaps in the coverage: the 20% or so of the bill that the typical Medicare patient must pay can be a severe burden; the long illness that exhausts inadequate insurance benefits is a terror to the middle class. Nonetheless, the system...
...hands, his hold on power is scarcely secure. The northern two-thirds of Chad remains under the control of the Libyan-backed Chad National Liberation Front (FROLINAT). Habre headed the front until last year, when he broke with Libya after its President, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, seized another chunk of northern Chad...
...your gift list you hunt around the Quincy Market until you find the store which sells nothing but seashells and related items in the line of maritime oddities. Think of the look on your Grandmother's face when you present her with a carefully--wrapped, three--feet across chunk of purple brain coral. If this sort of thrill is worth 125 clams to you, go ahead. If you're a bit more modest you could send her a shark tooth necklace or even a complete shark jaw for a reasonable amount. But if Poverty is your middle name, you could...