Word: chunking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anthamatten worked on the balky engine of a bulldozer. In the canteen a dozen men drank beer and munched sandwiches. Some 50 others were still in the barracks, resting up for the night shift. Suddenly there was a dull groan from the sky. Glancing up, Roosma saw a long chunk of the curling lip of the glacier break off and begin to slide down the cliff, slowly at first and then in a quickening whirl of ice and rock and snow...
...into five figures-which the "owners" of the winning teams happily pocketed. Then disaster struck. Two con men showed up as guests at a respectable Long Island club, posted grossly exaggerated handicaps, and bought a piece of themselves. They handily won their flight, and walked off with a large chunk of the $16,106.93 purse. Shortly thereafter, the United States Golf Association ruled that Calcuttas were strictly out of bounds, and most clubs stowed their auction hammers away in old closets. But for golfers who liked to gamble, playing in tournaments without a purse was as dreary as dancing without...
...equipment that already constitute a major part of the $1.7 billion a year school-equipment-and-supply business. Similarly, the $375 million mass-transportation subsidy, conceived to save strangling cities, will pour adrenalin into the economy. Impressed by increasing Government-financed mass-transit spending and anxious to get a chunk of the $8 billion equipment market, U.S. Steel last week introduced a new steel and glass car that can be adapted to both bus chassis and rails. Bigger Bites. There is, of course, another big side to the effects of welfare legislation. Higher social security payments mean bigger bites from...
...males pay little attention to their religion, and he regards Communism with a bleak, uncompromising hatred. As commander of the military training establishment at San Isidro airbase, he instituted mandatory Sunday Mass for recruits, taught courses in how to spot Communists. He also has at his disposal a sizable chunk of the Dominican Republic's firepower: eight F-51 propeller-driven fighters, eight Vampire jets, a company of 23 tanks, and two infantry battalions totaling...
Suddenly the rice came alive with bursting, 4.2-in. mortar shells. "It was the biggest pile of junk I've ever seen," said Associated Press Correspondent John T. Wheeler, an ex-Air Force officer now covering the war. When a chunk of the junk slapped through the throat of a U.S. adviser, Wheeler picked the wounded man up and began searching for a medic. But the South Vietnamese were already on the run, and armored trucks went bumping wildly across the hills in retreat without regard for the fleeing troops on foot. None would stop for Wheeler...