Word: chunks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Astronaut Judy Resnik, 36, used the shuttle's robot arm to delicately break away a chunk of ice that built up on the side of the space shuttle Discovery during her first flight...
...have problems. But Portland, like every other city, is having to swallow hard and really look at its own finances to see how we can best serve our own people." Duarte's request is a slight embarrassment for the State Department, since El Salvador is already receiving a sizable chunk of American aid. Indeed, in fiscal 1986 the U.S. has plans to send that country $350.6 million in economic aid, as well as $132.6 million in military assistance...
That comets do occasionally strike the earth seems certain. Some scientists think a tiny chunk of a comet, exploding in the atmosphere above Siberia in 1908, caused a tremendous blast and fireball in the Tunguska region, felling trees in a 200-sq.-mi. area and knocking the nearest residents (40 miles away) off their feet...
...acting by the supporting cast also is fine, especially by John Rabinowitz '85 as a guest who points out the Sartrean dilemma of being and nothingness by throwing himself down on all fours "to pretend to be a hyena"--a cameo that culminates in Rabinowitz taking a chunk out of the leg of a fellow guest. Kudos to Fitch for giving Rabinowitz several chances throughout the play to reveal his amazing repertoire of vocal sound effects...
...Network has just unveiled its first original sitcom, Check It Out!, starring Don Adams as a harried supermarket manager. And Ted Turner's superstation, WTBS, now has three original sitcoms in a Monday-night "comedy bloc." Cable has long proclaimed itself an alternative to the networks, but a growing chunk of its schedule seems less a choice than an echo...