Word: hulked
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...story building on South Fourth Street, tearing out the building's pipes, smashing windows and furnishings and peddling whatever could be moved. They got $35 a stove, $25 a refrigerator, $10 a sink, $3 a steam radiator. By week's end the building was a cannibalized hulk, and all the tenants were gone...
This handsome hulk of a capitalist-benefactor was born in a boxcar, son of an Italian immigrant mother and a French-Italian father en route to a railroad job in California. Mama and Papa Lavette perish in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Daniel is left with his father's small boat and a shockproof will to rise in the world. He is a tough, practical, democratic cuss who cares little for racial, religious or class barriers. To keep track of his profitable fishing venture, he hires a Chinese bookkeeper and later takes a Jewish business partner. An unselfconscious...
Comic book fans should check out CBS's movie version of The Incredible Hulk, Channel 7, 8 p.m., Friday. Bill Bixby plays the weakling scientist who transforms himself into a repulsively ugly creature with superhuman strength by exposing himself to massive amounts of radiation (gamma rays, for all those trivia nuts out there). Aficionados beware: television adaptations of superheroes have a notoriously poor track record. The book is usually much better...
...survival of his crew became a legend that contributed notably to his political career. When young Michael learned of an Australian effort to find and hoist up the remains of PT109, he set off to meet with the adventurers. His special dream: to see artifacts-or maybe even the hulk itself-installed some day in the new Kennedy Library...
Every so often, like an air bubble from a sunken ship, a new bit of law reform arises out of the hulk of the Nixon Administration. A U.S. House judiciary subcommittee is currently taking expert testimony on the venerable and awesome grand jury system, which Nixon's Justice Department had used to intimidate its New Left opponents, and many legal authorities are calling for change. Another alteration in the 800-year evolution of the grand jury, which once served to protect the innocent from over-zealous prosecutors, appears imminent...