Word: bum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quickly the plane climbed to more than 20,000 ft. There Pilot Haven opened the plane's bomb bay and lowered into the airstream a shining mass of metal. It hung 5 ft. below the plane, like a stubby cigar. Like a cigar, it began to bum at the tip, and it let out a whine like the wail of 10,000 banshees...
...notion that the typical alcoholic is an elderly bum or a friendless misfit dates from the days when drunks were observed mostly in police courts and state hospitals. Dr. Robert Straus and Dr. Selden D. Bacon, sociologists at the Yale Center of Alcoholic Studies, decided to get some up-to-date information by sifting through the case histories of 2,023 alcoholics treated at the Yale Plan Clinic and others like it. Their findings: the average clinic patient is 41, married and living with his family, has held a job involving skill or responsibility for three years or more...
...racetrack tout known as the Lemon Drop Kid, Hope finds himself in a nasty jam when he gives a sour tip to a racketeer (Fred Clark). To square the bum steer, the gangster demands 1) $10,000 or 2) Hope's life, payable by Christmas. Hope hatches a scheme to raise the money by drafting Broadway mugs and con men into Santa Claus suits, sets them to taking up a sidewalk collection, supposedly for an old ladies' home. He also supplies the old dolls, installs them with a flourish in a vacant gambling casino and starts cleaning...
...Nancy announced that the indoor tournament was just Phase 1 of her campaign to win the Nationals at Forest Hills next September. "You know why I want to "win the championship? I'm using my racket to get ahead. I don't want to be a tennis bum, living off people on the Riviera...
...invalid because they give the police commissioner power to control "the right of citizens to speak on religious matters." ¶In 1949, Irving Feiner mounted a soapbox in Syracuse to drum up a crowd for a Young Progressive club meeting, began shrilling such comments as "President Truman is a bum," exhorted Negroes in a crowd of 70 to 80 people to fight for their rights. When a bystander said to a cop, "If you don't get that son of a bitch off I will go over and get him off there myself," the cop arrested Feiner...