Word: hunk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Raikes and Ragamuffins" [Aug. 25]: The Sunday school is dying because the church too often welcomes with gratitude and relief any hunk of protoplasm with a yen to teach who can be scrounged up and stuck in front of a class. Misinformation is innocently, unapologetically, enthusiastically and dogmatically perpetrated. Thoughtful students can hardly be criticized for fleeing this scene...
Consumers are also likely to remain sluggish spenders because inflation and taxes are taking away such a large hunk of their incomes. The after-inflation real hourly earnings of Americans dropped by 5.6% during the first three months of 1980, the eighth straight quarter that price rises had got the better of paychecks. The tax bite is getting bigger too. Just when the economy is expected to start picking up, a $12.4 billion increase in Social Security taxes will take effect in January. This will raise the amount paid by a family of four earning $25,000 a year...
...another comparatively hardhearted approach gaining adherents even in the U.S. State Department is simply to be tougher in striking back next time?as the Soviets would probably be. "Tehran would never happen to the Soviets," says U.S. Antiterrorism Expert Robert Kupperman. "If it did, they would wipe out a hunk of the city, even if they lost everybody in their embassy. That has its deterrent effect...
...summer hitching to-fro' across America, by turning my back on I-90 and following the signs for the Billings, Montana airport. I had grown tired of hitching on a ramrod highway flopped down in dusty desolation and sustaining tin-diner towns. The west's rusticity and bo-hunk spirit sickened me. Two months on a ranch splitting wood, driving cattle, digging ditches, setting up fenceline, chewing tobacco, chasing chickens and pigs, and slaughtering sheep had sapped my pioneering, yahoo spirit. I longed for the sophisticated East, the blue rhapsody of New York. An impressive airhitch home would stifle...
...your friend here is a real pizzaface, what a hunk...