Word: bumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...card holders alike were forced to take a trolley, pack into a bus, bum rides or walk...
...door, and said: "Get ashamed of myself every time I see those guys. Risk their lives every day. And me? I'm supposed to be a naval officer, and they won't let me go to sea!" He wore spectacles, and after a pause he added: "Bum eyes. They threw me out of the American Navy." His voice was harsh and bitter...
...since April. The "sergeant pilot," Robert Poynter, another Detroit boy, had worked for Hudson, had enlisted in Canada in the Polish armed forces in November 1941, but had been taken home by his parents as underage. On his 20th birthday he enlisted again, was honorably discharged. He started to bum around, met Albert. "We had to say something," said "Gunner" Albert...
Somebody had given Mrs. Isbelle and the News a bum steer. Armed with letters from the War Department, Sam Rayburn entrained for Texas. At Sulphur Springs, to 2,500 cheering, stomping Administration backers, he gave his answer...
Given a month's leave, he tried in Cairo to bum a ride to the U.S. with William C. Bullitt aboard a bomber. Bullitt said there was no room. But not for nothing had Correspondent Allen been able to talk the British into letting him become the Fleet's first correspondent. He followed Bullitt in a commercial plane across Africa. The next two days and three nights Hitchhiker Allen rode in the empty bomb compartment of Bullitt's plane...