Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stops appreciatively on the massive, floating box-and-cloister of Charles Luckman's United States pavilion, and disapprovingly on Bell Telephone's flying wing, which looks more like a big hunk of sedimentary rock than an airfoil. The three-acre building that houses General Motors' Futurama ends in one gigantic tail fin, which may be good as advertising but is ridiculous as architecture. The boldest structure at the fair is Architect Philip Johnson's New York State pavilion: 16 tremendous columns support an elliptical roof of colored plastics that is larger than a football field...
...industrial exhibit once consisted of bringing in a hunk of machinery and putting a rail around it. Today, the most prosaic product whirls and whooshes, beguiles the eye and delights the mind...
...rest of the money will probably come from smaller private donations, as has the money already received. "It will be very close," Harp said. "What we really hope for is a kind philanthropist who can solve it all." Last year the Project received a large hunk of their total the day before the plane left for Africa...
...editor of a crusading weekly back in the 1930s, New Mexico Newsman Will Harrison made so many enemies that he took to carrying a hunk of type metal for self-defense. Now that he has turned columnist in 16 Southwestern dailies, 13 weeklies and two monthly magazines, Harrison is still stirring up trouble so strenuously that Judge Paul Tackett of the state district court in Albuquerque has just hit him with a $250 fine and a ten-day jail sentence for contempt of court. While the punishment itself does not seem unbearably burdensome, the case has reverberated far beyond...
...STOCK. Baker's fortunes began to grow when he first latched onto a 250-share hunk of stock in Milwaukee's Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. (nicknamed "Magic"). He bought the stock before the SEC had registered it, eventually saw a $28,750 investment balloon to about $400,000. Why had Magic's president, Max Karl, catered to Bobby? As Karl later testified, "I was impressed with his title." It would be good for Magic, he added, to have "well-known stockholders," and Baker "knew a lot of people." Baker certainly did, and he touted many of them...