Word: chunk
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...really takes a big chunk of time out because you are gone for weekends, but it is worth it," said sophomore Lily Childress. "The team was really a lot of fun and the people were great...
Harvard women's cross-country entered this season having to cope with the graduation of a chunk of its team, one that posted an impressive 20-3 dual meet record last season...
Forst and classmate Brain Ralph lead the way, Forst batting .409 with 61 hits and Ralph, despite missing a chunk of the season, hitting .373 with nine home runs and 32 RBI. Ralph is only one long ball away from tying Harvard's all-time record for homers in a season...
...bookie who, with his entourage occupies the first row of seats, to the "suits"--the Wall Streeters who rode the 4 train uptown to take in a game--to the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who somehow always manage to comprise a significant chunk of the bleacher attendance, a mass of humanity totally blind to distinctions of class, race and creed bound together around a man who had been chased from the pastime in disgrace for cocaine addiction...
This insinuation is particularly strong in thelegend of the community's founding, which takes upa significant chunk of the novel's middle. Thefounder is the illegitimate son of an Irish monk,who raises the boy cloistered and influencedexclusively by the priestly life and thescriptures. When his father dies and the othermonks flee a famine, the boy is loosed upon thecountry. Having never encountered humans before,he viciously survives the hunger by murdering andcannibalizing those whom he has been taught inLatin to treat as Christ. He continues in similarfashion in Newfoundland, as a pirate terrorizingthe British Colony there until...