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Word: hunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hunk of Iron." It was largely Nixon's unmistakable Republicanness that led Republican chieftains at the Chicago convention in 1952 to pick him from Dwight Eisenhower's short list of acceptable vice-presidential prospects. The new President was reared in the military gospel that a second in command should always be trained to take over in case of accident, accordingly decided at the start that his Vice President would sit in the councils of the Administration, learn its secrets, share in its decisions, and so be prepared to take over if the President died in office. Ike laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Candidate in Crisis | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...newspaper people are a bunch of sons of bitches. The old man is fed up with you." Then she grabbed Irma (95 Ibs.) by the hair, kicked and punched her senseless. When Irma regained consciousness, she had the makings of a shiner, sundry cuts and bruises, and a large hunk of hair missing from her scalp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Street Incident | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...there is an undercurrent of racism in reverse . . ." In the midst of a rising demand that he suspend Jack and start permanent removal proceedings, Governor Nelson Rockefeller decided to wait until after Hulan Jack has his day in the Appellate Court on April 14. Until then, the most valuable hunk of real estate in the world will remain under the presidency of a man who, in the words of the New York Times, has demonstrat ed a strange "insensitivity to public opinion and the proprieties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Back on the Job | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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