Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Finance. This week Young and his two friends cleared up the mystery of the purchase. It turned out that 1) the Texans had spent none of their own money to get the stock, and 2) Bob Young's Alleghany Corp. had clearly put up a large chunk of the money to finance the stock purchase. But no one agreed on exactly how the deal had been arranged...
...then he insists on setting up a separate establishment." With this provocative generalization, written 80 years ago in The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler not only supplied the main clue to his own character but set hissing the long fuse at whose other end stood that grand, portentous chunk of dynamite, the Victorian father. But Butler's masterpiece was only published after his death (1902), and it was not until the rebellious '20s that his Way of All Flesh became the model for hundreds of novels by other Pa-baiting young authors...
...collect high taxes. But he believes that he can serve his principles by running an efficient bureau. Until he had reached middle age, even after he became an eminent C.P.A. in Richmond, Va., Andrews wanted to be a surgeon. Now that he is taking the fat (and quite a chunk of the lean) out of 60 million taxpayers' incomes, he feels that he has attained his goal in a different way. Says he: "This is deep surgery...
...England, the city fathers of Manchester fussed and fumed over whether to pay Sculptor Henry Moore a generous ?760 for a lumpy chunk of bronze called Draped Torso, which looked like a vandalized nightgown. Murmured one alderman: "I wish it were a statue of Marilyn Monroe." Sneered a Moore supporter: "This is a work of art." An anti-Moore man retorted: "Is the councilor insinuating that Marilyn Monroe is not a work of art?" Moore's Torso lost the vote...
Matter of Pressure. In San Mateo, Calif., Ramond Dockery explained to police why he had thrown a chunk of concrete through the station house door: "I just had to, officer, it's been building up in me for 40 years...