Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Hawaiian Hotel was almost deserted. At Waikiki tourists still lolled about on the abbreviated beach (a good hunk of it was washed out to sea last year), but in houses all over the Honolulu hills housewives were trying to figure out where to put an air-raid shelter. Almost 5,000 volunteers flocked into Queen's Hospital to contribute blood to a blood bank...
...physical city tamed too. Gothic extravagance yielded to gracious Georgian façades; Disraeli snorted over London's architectural insipidity. The criminals, the riffraff and the poor were vital; the rest of the nation was one sallow hunk of middle-class mutton. Where berserk bulls had once been a traffic problem, "scorchers" on bicycles were called a public menace. The last gold sovereigns of England sang on the counters of World War I. Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps...
...Coming up now, Kittens, is a terrific little number. ... A record I'd like to mention is Artie Shaw's new release-a hunk of thing called Dr. Livingstone, I Presume...
...kick with the band was that as soon as Cab stepped off the stage, there was nothing there but a rather noisy brass section and an exceedingly wobbly hunk of rhythm. Now, however His Highness has stepped into the market and returned with several juicy chunks of swing--namely Chu Berry on tenor sax, Cozy Cole on drums, Milton Hinton on bass, Hilton Jefferson on alto, Kay Johnson on trombone, Jerry Blake on clarinet and a kid trumpet player named Danny Barker...
...sketching the trotters on odd scraps of paper. Later, as a husky moving-man, he used to ask for the job of crating people's paintings, so he could touch and study the oils. When a German sniper's dumdum bullet ploughed out a big hunk of his right shoulder in October 1918, after he had served 14 months in front-line trenches with his Negro National Guard company, Horace Pippin was invalided home as a total disability. But still he kept wanting to paint. Unable to raise his right hand to shoulder level, he propped...