Word: hulk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oats, hay, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa seed had all been crowned. The crowd had taken its fill of side-show exhibits: insect pests, choice meat cuts, Sculptor Charles Umlauf 's 13 skating pigs done in lard. Then into the ring at the Chicago Stockyards' International Amphitheatre stepped a hulk ing, bullnecked man with sagging trousers and a wise, weathered face. He was farmer J. Charles Yule, of Alberta, Canada, who had been given the ticklish job of choosing the grand champion steer of the show. This was the big show's climax...
French and Russian Ballet, then, is a rotted hulk of the great pre-war ballet of Serge Diaghilev. It is too clogged with unnaturalness to have very much meaning today. For one thing, its stories are mostly mythological or fanciful, handled as though in a complete vacuum, with not the slightest trace of anything to link them with real life. The music, too, is defective in that it is addicted to effect and picturization rather than spontaneous expression. But probably what makes old-style ballet so sterile is the fact that this is primarily not a dancing age: that...
...Chateau Chazeron is a hulk of medieval architecture which later sprouted two long gabled wings of the period of Louis XIII (see cut). It has no electricity, no running water, no heat except wood fires. Scrubby terraces lead down to the surrounding fields. In the U between the wings there is a sloping grass lawn from one end of which the castle glares out across the countryside...
...Navy added its own postscript. It was put down in the blood of a thousand French gobs, gay in their red pompons and striped shirts, who had frolicked with British seamen on shore leave below Oran's quake-shattered Kasbah. It was put down in the hulk of the Dunkerque, France's answer to Germany's pocket battleships, now beached and battered by British bombs on the Barbary coast. It was repeated in the draggle-tailed flight of the crippled Strasbourg to Toulon, in the smashed hulks of four other men-of-war, in the sullen disarmament...
Toward the dark hulk of the waiting submarine the Washington kept her own signaling searchlight flashing ceaselessly: "American ship! American ship...