Word: chunking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubles were far from over. Two or three museums bought sculptures from him; a few major group shows exhibited him; sales were so few that at one point Reder and his wife had scarcely enough to eat. Even today a $10,000 Ford Foundation grant provides a good,chunk of his living...
...want to see the city, walk. Boston is neither so compact (nor so hilly) as San Francisco, but it is sufficiently small that you will be able to cover a substantial chunk in an afternoon of legging...
...equipped with guns and radar in New Orleans, steamed toward Cuba. That afternoon Miró and his Revolutionary Council were driven from Manhattan to Philadelphia by the CIA and flown to a secret rendezvous in Florida, where they could be held in readiness to move into the first available chunk of "free Cuba." They were lodged in an old house near an abandoned airfield, surrounded by a swarm of agents, ordered to stay put. At one point, some of the council members announced that they were going to leave, even if it meant getting shot, but were put off with...
John E. Donahue '64 was the only person in the room at the time of the accident. "I was just studying," he said, "when I thought I heard rain. Then I looked up and a big chunk came out of the ceiling." Donahue, visibly shaken by the experience, said that the plaster crashed to the floor less than a foot from where he was sitting. "The chair I had been sitting in 15 minutes before was completely covered," he said...
High in Cairo. The Mississippi's river system is vital. It furnishes power for a huge chunk of U.S. industry. Americans use it to irrigate their farms, to brew beer in Minnesota, to draw off sewage in Ohio and Kentucky, to carry boats and barges over thousands of miles, to help light millions of homes. But the Mississippi, the Ohio and the Missouri, with all their tributaries, are also deadly: in 1952, as an outstanding flood-year example, they cost millions in property damage, along with scores of lives. Now, for the first time in the habitation of North...