Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the evening is devoted to conversation (a handful of good Hecht & MacArthur cracks, a hunk of fancy chatter about psychiatry and art) and to pianoplaying. Twelve-year-old Jacqueline Horner plays Chopin and Mozart with precocious skill; but the concert by no means makes up for the claptrap...
Oldtime traders found it hard to believe that Hunt had sold out. In 20 years of eager-beaver business, first as vice consul, then as U.S. shipping board agent, finally as head of Hunt & Co., Bill Hunt had put his monogram on a sizable hunk of the Celestial Kingdom. Through Hunt & Co. he had exclusive distribution rights to 250 key products manufactured by 70-odd U.S. firms, had sold motors, electric trolleys, machine tools, steel buildings with a careful hand. Tirelessly the Hunt fingers had probed every phase of Chinese commercial life, often turned up in a competitor...
Soon the U.S. will be able to hear most of Burrows' own Hit Parade. Some of the titles: The Girl with the Three Blue Eyes, You Ate a Hunk of My Heart, I Looked under a Rock and Found You, Walking down Memory Lane without a Goddam Thing on My Mind, Green Christmas ("I'm going to spend a green Christmas on next St. Patrick...
...they said), 1,750 Kentucky and West Virginia coal miners refused to work. In Philadelphia, hospitals and war plant cafeterias could find meat for only one meal a week. In the Texas Panhandle, where the ranges were overstocked with fat, grazing herds, it was hard to find even a hunk of stewing beef...
...Better known as cinema's "beautiful hunk...