Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immaculate, cement-lined chamber nearby, a hoist operator scanned two closed-circuit TV screens that monitor the ore buckets, make sure they are dumping properly into large collection bins. Above ground, at the end of the production process, refinery workers were pouring Brick No. 37,035-a 30-lb. hunk of solid gold worth...
...years the Interstate Sanitation Commission had declared that the waters of Raritan Bay, a sizable hunk of New York Harbor, were fit for swimming, boating and fishing. When the New Republic's new reporter, James Ridgeway, took a look at Raritan in 1963, he came to an opposite conclusion. "Not unlike the environs of the River Styx," he wrote, "a foul-smelling sewer feeds the accumulated filth from 1,200,000 people into this bay every 24 hours. This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities...
They have names like The Bag I'm In, a leather goods store, Snug, a bar which is, and Little Pleasures, an ice cream and sweets parlor. Soup's On is a restaurant offering a big bowl of the stuff, a hunk of French bread and coffee for a buck, while Chances R and its sister restaurant across the street (called Across the Street) push a ton of hamburger and give away half a ton of peanuts every week...
Corvair Controversy. The California Supreme Court defined the new doctrine even more sweepingly in the 1963 case of a man who had yearned to own a much advertised power lathe. His wife bought him one; it promptly shot a hunk of wood into his head. In upholding a verdict based on faulty design, the court ruled that injured consumers need not claim a theoretical "implied warranty" but may rely simply on "strict liability in tort." Said the court: "A manufacturer is strictly liable in tort when an article he places on the market, knowing that it is to be used...
...decide to do more of same. A study of the 34 new shows and 58 holdovers scheduled for the new fall season shows that spies are up, and so is witchcraft. Westerns are making a modest comeback, and literally every second offering will be a situation comedy. A healthy hunk of it all will be in color: NBC will color cast 96% of its shows...