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Word: hunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone on the street calls Cooper the "key man" because he carries a great many around on a large ring and because he seems to be at the very center of all the action. His is, in any case, a poor fiefdom, a small hunk of downtown territory in an unnamed city that is clearly Los Angeles. Cooper holds court in bars, keeps a small, dusty office in which even the sunlight is encrusted. He is a fixer and a mover: he puts up bail bond, regulates the steady flow of petty crime in the neighborhood. Cooper also has eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Down the Block | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

This is the ugliest hunk in the Yard, another undergraduate said. It looks like a dungeon. It's just overpowering drabness. I think it looks forbidding--kind of monstrous looking--Mem Hall does...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: The Whispering Bulk of Sever Hall | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

...Levy-Shea offers not only a 30-minute yoga session but also a low-calorie lunch (sample menu: organic apple juice, four raw string beans, tomato wedges, sliced cucumber, green pepper, celery, radish, figs, unsalted cashew nuts and a slice of Russian black bread with a hunk of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese). Regular yoga conditioning, says Levy, "reduces colds and other respiratory problems. People say they have fewer headaches and sleep sounder." It also-Masters and Johnson, please note -improves one's sex life. Sex? Well, explains Levy, "you have fewer tensions, you're relaxed, and you learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Beating the Blahs | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...Nicholson." It is not necessary to have a vested interest, however, to see that Nicholson right now is on top. A look at Chinatown's weekly top-ten placing on Variety charts is one kind of proof, Jack's current $750,000 asking price (plus a good hunk of the picture's profits) is another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star with the Killer Smile | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...invariably somebody will say, "Why didn't you have somebody like me in it?" They want that piece of whatever it is--not immortality--hunk of themselves somewhere over and beyond their immediate physical being...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: Studs Terkel | 3/27/1974 | See Source »

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