Word: chunking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian was one of history's great athletes, excelling at football, pentathlon, decathlon, golf, bowling, hockey, lacrosse, swimming, rifle, squash, handball and horsemanship. So when he died in 1953, the Pennsylvania coal town of Mauch Chunk (pop. 5.945), not far from Carlisle, where he went to college, welcomed his corpse with a $10,500 mausoleum, and renamed itself Jim Thorpe, Pa., in his honor. The town fathers figured he would be a great tourist draw. But disillusionment has set in, and John H. Otto, chairman of the County Water and Sewer Authority, is now leading a campaign to change...
...usual, the signs of victory had to be read between the grey, garrulous lines of Communist ideology. First, Izvestia apologized for an article written by an obscure Soviet economist named Valev, who had suggested that a big chunk of Rumania be peeled off for a "Lower Danube Project" aimed at providing more hydroelectric power and irrigation for the Red common market, Comecon...
...never used a double. He walked along a ten-story ledge and hung from a wire 70 ft. high. Once he was warned that a stream was too dangerous to swim in, being chock full of poisonous serpents, carnivorous disease-carrying insects and razor-teethed fish. Belmondo tossed a chunk of corned beef into the water. When nothing happened to it, he dove in, saying: "What the hell, if they're not going to chew on that they're certainly not going...
...Power. Wall Street's grapevine brought word of their search to the tenth-floor corner office of Merrill Lynch's chairman, Michael W. McCarthy. He and Merrill Lynch's directors made a unique proposal to Devine's partners: Why not buy up a large chunk of Merrill Lynch's undistributed stock and join the company? After a fortnight of secret negotiations, the two houses agreed on Wall Street's biggest deal this year. Thirteen of the Devine partners anted up $8,000,000 and were taken into Merrill Lynch as a division...
Supported by naval and air power, MacArthur attacked constantly, leapfrogging through a series of coastal assaults on key islands that isolated the Japanese chunk by chunk. In October 1944, he landed on Leyte; three months later he was back on Luzon; and 25 days after that, he claimed Manila. Cried MacArthur: "On to Tokyo!" On Sept. 2, 1945, as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, he accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo...