Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinary detective is a hunk of merchandise, like a gun and bullets. Anybody with enough small change can buy him. Philip Marlowe is the exception. "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean," wrote Chandler, "who is neither tarnished nor afraid." Trading on the name, the Marlowe makers have banished fear, but they forgot to remove the tarnish...
...jock, football players and hockey players, soccer men and wrestlers all seem to blur into one, large hunk. But cross country runners always have seemed different-somehow not your basic jocks...
Design School student Nancy Slavin said, "It is less but it's still quite a hunk. We're glad he did this work. There's very little concrete data on housing-that's one of the big problems...
Russian involvement in Sinkiang dates to the Czars. In the mid-19th century, Alexander II sent troops into northwestern Sinkiang to quell a Moslem revolt. An 1881 treaty restored part of the area to China, but Russia retained a large hunk. Stalin expanded Soviet influence in Sinkiang by using Soviet consulates and cultural centers for propaganda. In 1944, Moslem rebels financed by Moscow set up the East Turkestan Republic in Sinkiang. Up to the time Mao Tse-tung won control of China, the Russians were trying to establish Sinkiang as an independent republic...
...dampened. In London to film All the Right Noises, she allowed that next season might be her last with the bucket brigade. "I'm fed up with the sock-it-to-me tag," she said. "The other day I walked into a restaurant, and someone threw a hunk of bread at me and shouted, "I'll sock it to you, all right...