Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canadians welcomed close U.S.-Canadian cooperation on defense-but there was such a thing as getting too close. The Ottawa Citizen last week indignantly reported that a U.S. defense map showed Newfoundland and a large hunk of northeastern Canada as part of the U.S. Northeast Command...
...direct and simple. When he wants to describe Flem Snopes's eyes, he calls them "two gobs of cup grease on a hunk of raw dough...
...listener can learn quite a hunk of truth about America and its hopes-and about the poetry of Kansas City-from this passage. He can also learn quite a lot of nonsense from some recent French broadcasts (generally, the French desk is one of the Voice's best) which tried to show that Americans are really very cultured. The French Voice recently remarked in dead earnest, upon the publication in the U.S. of a new book on Marcel Proust: "In the subway and on buses, you constantly meet workers and employees, men and women, on their...