Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of this paragraph, TIME Correspondent Honor Balfour, will herself keep an old custom of her native Lancashire by sallying forth with a hunk of bread, a nugget of coal and a handful of salt jammed into a pocket of her thickest coat to parade London's streets "till 1949 is well and truly born." Then, she will "first-foot" it back home, bearing the bread, coal and salt that are symbolic of warmth and prosperity for the coming year. Being a brunette, she will then go on to first-foot it for other Lancastrians who have the misfortune...
California's Governor Earl Warren, 57, father of six, got an election-year posy. He was named one of the "most virile men in America" by an organization calling itself the International Artists Committee. Among the other he-men honored: Cinemactors Clark Gable, 47, and Victor ("Gorgeous Hunk of Man") Mature. Gushed the committee' s chairman: "They're positively loaded with hormones...
Comeback. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, once called "a bankrupt hunk of rusty junk," completed the painful climb to respectability (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947). It declared a common stock dividend-its first in 67 years, its second since it was founded...
Married. Victor Mature, 34, Hollywood's sulky-faced "beautiful hunk of man"; and Dorothy Stanford Berry, 28, Pasadena socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Yuma, Ariz...
Commercials for television are causing deep furrows in admen's brows. The perfect solution, advertising experts have decided, would be an overpowering combination of eye-catcher (four roses in a hunk of ice) and ear-filler ("Pepsi-Cola hits the spot...