Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prudential Insurance Co., whose advertisements boast that it "has the strength of Gibraltar," received a 1½-ton chunk of The Rock itself, to be set in the corner stone of its new West Coast offices...
...Ceylon for safekeeping in the 4th Century. The Portuguese claim to have burned this relic in the market place at Goa in the 16th Century, and since then successive teeth have been stolen from the temple by other invaders. But pious Buddhists still believe that the enshrined relic, a chunk of ivory 20 times the size of an ordinary tooth, is the original...
...information had taken advantage of the "stabilizing" to unload their holdings at the higher price. After K-F stopped buying, the stock started down. At $11, K-F had already lost over $460,000 on its stock. K-F had suffered another blow. It had tied up a good chunk of its ready cash in stock. With all the hue & cry over the stock, chances looked slim that K-F would soon be able to find new buyers at the same price to help it raise the $10,000,000 in new capital it badly wanted for expansion...
...British tabloid readers, Glubb is already a legendary creature like T. E. Lawrence ("of Arabia"). They imagine him to be tall and slim, with steely blue eyes and commanding voice. Actually his voice is soft, his eyes watery. A World War I wound clipped off a chunk of his jaw, bent his features into a permanent smile. Among the Arabs he is known as Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Chin...
...have a car, it costs quite a chunk of change to get to the ski country. If you do have a car, chances are, you might find yourself stranded along about midnight somewhere in the New Hampshire wilderness. So with an eye to the pocketbook and comfort of the ski enthusiast, the Boston and Maine Railroad has invented the Snotrain, and the Inter-Collegiate Outing Clubs Association, the Snobus...