Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the city of Hilo, Hawaii was threatened by Mauna Loa, a local princess was called to the rescue. Mumbling an incantation, she threw a hunk of her hair into the onrushing lava and stopped it right on the outskirts of town. In 1935 the U.S. Army substituted TNT bombs for hair, and tried the same stunt -with about the same result...
...nephews, King and Charles Dunn. A few nights later, on Etowah's main street, Burkett Ivins shot and killed his eighth man : ailing, limping, unarmed Charles Dunn. At his trial, Ivins swore that Dunn had threatened to beat his brains in and had rushed at him with a hunk of concrete in his upraised hands. A hung jury left Ivins free to go around as he always had-with a .45 automatic hitched to his belt...
...Came Poetry. He and the hotel architect had agreed that his theme should be "Sunday in the Alameda" (the city's finest park, opposite the Prado). But Rivera, like his fellow triumvirs of Mexican art, Siqueiros and Orozco, was no man to waste a big hunk of wall on a merely pastoral theme. He had crammed his picture of the Alameda with the villains and heroes, the blood and dreams, of Mexican history. Said he: "Every one of the 148 figures in this mural I have known personally. I've shaken hands with most of them...
Perry Como joined the pelted crooners of history. Rudy Vallee had been struck by a grapefruit (1931); Frank Sinatra by an egg (1944); Crooner Como, deep in Dream, Dream,Dream at a Chicago theater, was awakened last week by a hunk of hard candy. His injury: a lump on the noggin...
...last week's show by announcing: "My rich, velvety baritone is ready to bring you . . . songs that all America never heard of." Abe's song titles include: I've Got a Gal in Calico Who's Dying for a Mink and You Ate Up a Hunk of My Heart...