Word: bum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...alcoholic does not necessarily know that he is an alcoholic. The stereotype of the stumbling, mumbling Bowery bum applies to no more than about 5% of the alcoholics in the U.S. Most alcoholics hold jobs, raise families, and manage to hide their addiction from everyone, often even from themselves. An alcoholic may go on for years, imbibing three martinis at lunch, two more on the way home and three when he gets there. One day, however, he may wind up in a hospital with a broken leg and, deprived of his daily quota, may suddenly find himself in the middle...
Superman. Superman is jailed on a bum rap but he refuses to escape. An inspiration to us all. Ch. 27, 5 p.m. 1/2 hour...
...Nixon's strong defenders on the committee. "The President's lawyer was off base when he stated the committee should first define an impeachable offense?there is no set definition. Each member will have to subjectively determine this in his own mind." Hogan contended that Nixon was getting "bum advice" and was in danger of losing those on the committee "who are trying to keep an open mind on impeachment." The release of the Doar letter to St. Clair, protested Texas Democrat Jack Brooks, was "an affront to the comity between the White House and the Congress." But he urged...
...list of walking wounded begins with co-captain Marc Noonan, who has been nursing a bum shoulder, and Kevin Carr, who could be out for as much as two weeks with torn shoulder ligaments suffered against Northeastern...
...Catskill resorts on weekends, where he did a stand-up comic shtik using the name Jerry Herring. His fellow students at the yeshiva took a dim view of his enchantment with show business. On his return to classes from the Catskills, they would mutter in Yiddish: "Der bum iz du [The bum is here]." All the same, Cutler was ordained at 24 and served a Conservative congregation in Stamford, Conn., before becoming a reviewer for a film trade paper. He soon switched to hawking talent, managing comics like Slappy White and Stanley Myron Handelman...