Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uvalde, Texas, a spry, bowlegged little man with a stubborn back-hair cowlick celebrated his 71st birthday by packing a lunch (including a hunk of birthday cake baked by his wife), rode off after deer. Six days late was John Nance Garner in bagging his annual buck; but he was on time at the hunt campfire, where he dished up his special concoction-"Son-of-a-gun stew," which supposedly includes a dash of everything...
Designer Calder sells his Mobiles and Stabiles, makes them all in his workshops in Manhattan or in Roxbury, Conn. Costume Designer Millia Davenport has an outdoor Mobile-a mushroom-shaped hunk of hard Lignum vitae, balanced upon another-which ordinarily is as still as a Stabile. But during the Eastern hurricane last autumn, with trees crashing all around it, the Mobile revolved ceaselessly on its axis, all through the storm...
...Western World of Bandon, Ore. appeared a notice: "Lost-At Port Orford beach, a hunk of right thumb with small piece of thumb nail attached. Finder please notify Ruth Tucker...
Borderland. The Ukrainian districts of Eastern Europe constitute a huge hunk of southeastern Poland (Galicia), a narrow slice of northern Rumania (northern Bessarabia), the eastern tip of Czecho-Slovakia (Ruthenia) and the most fertile and second most populous of the eleven major constituent states of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Ukrainian S.S.R.). No great loss would it be for Czechoslovakia to lose undeveloped Ruthenia, with only 550,000 inhabitants, to a Hitler-inspired "Greater Ukraine." Rumania also could well survive after her Ukrainian districts, with 800,000 inhabitants, had been detached. For Poland, however, the loss of eastern Galicia...
...best and some of the worst artistic efforts seen in that neighborhood in years. In the first category were Isamu Noguchi's Monument to Benjamin Franklin, gay, shiny and abstract suggestion of key, kite and lightning; Vladimir Yoffe's Design for Keystone, a powerfully carved hunk; and Milton Hebald's bronze Girl Walking (see cut), a 12-in. figure which almost anybody would like. Critics thought it a promising departure for young Mr. Hebald...