Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trevino's desire to buy a big hunk of life for me and my kids" is a drive born of deprivation. He does not know who his father was and has never tried to find out. "Rich people like to talk about their backgrounds, their ancestors and where they come from," he explains. "We were too poor to care. We were too busy existing." He was raised in the rural outskirts of Dallas by his mother Juanita and his maternal grandfather Joe Trevino, an immigrant gravedigger. Their four-room frame house ?located "about two miles over in the country...
...trademark, requested by Longchamps Restaurants in New York City, portrays the profile of a nude woman with her body sectioned off as if it were a hunk of beef...
...image of the nude woman as a hunk of beef was originated about five years ago by the Cattle Baron Steak and Roast Beef Parlor in New York City and immediately became popular with poster buyers...
...deception, sometimes deliberate, sometimes unintentional, has not ended. Two weeks ago, at a press conference called to justify the incursion into Laos, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Lieut. General John W. Vogt Jr. displayed a hunk of the pipeline that carries gas from North Viet Nam down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They implied that it had been seized by the South Vietnamese during the current drive into Laos. Last week the Pentagon admitted that the piping had actually been brought back by South Vietnamese commandos after an earlier, unannounced raid. It "probably would have been better," Laird acknowledged...
...guys have to do. Lately, I've been cramming in everything on Friday-dentists, doctors, shopping. Then we have Saturday and Sunday to go somewhere." As Jack Peterson, a die and mold designer for C.A. Norgren Co. of Littleton, Colo., puts it, "I like my time in a hunk; you can concentrate on a project more...