Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FORD Motor Co., which makes one of every five U.S. farm tractors, is ready to try for a bigger chunk of the farm-equipment market. It will shortly put on sale its first full line of farm equipment, including combines, hay balers, corn pickers and cotton harvesters...
There was another kind of hero forged by the heat and pressure of battle. There was the private, foot all but blown off, chest punctured with machine-gun bullets, face mangled by a mortar chunk, who kept going until he got nearly to the top of the ridge. There, he died, and only then fell down. There were the two Kentuckians who rushed up a hill screaming hillbilly songs and dived into a North Korean bunker with their hand grenades, blowing it up. There were also men who went to pieces in the strain of battle, and dashed forward, screaming...
...turned her over to Henderson, and Henderson was grateful. Jimmy got rich sponging on wealthy women and outsmarting timid competitors. By the mid-'30s he was a big man, but for his restless ambition not nearly big enough. He took Madge back when she picked up a big chunk of money as a rich man's mistress, but ditched her a second time. He married for money, dropped his wife when he could get nothing more...
...left to place the bets, and by the time I returned with two show stubs on Casey's choice, she had bought a fifty dollar chunk of Omm Paul's nose. The horses left the gate well, and Mike was right; his animal was good--good enough to cop an easy second...
...object to flying in such weather? "I am eager to go. There's nothing more fascinating than the other side of the clouds; the far side is intensely beautiful." His philosophy? "I'll give you quite a chunk of my philosophy in just seven words: 'The wolf is always at the door.' There's no use killing any of them, because there is always another. I'm not complaining of him-he keeps us fit and even alive, if we are alert." His best period of writing: during the 1940 blitz on London, when...