Word: bump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither Loren MacKinney nor Don Forte participated in the contact work, but both will be ready to face the Cadets Saturday. The extent of Fisher's bump can not be determined until today, the doctors announced...
...Lyman, second team blocking back, suffered a bump on the leg and left the field in an H.A.A. cart. It is not thought, however, that his injury is serious. Others on the sick list include ends Bill Barnes and Johnny Farley, but both are expected to be back in a few days at the most...
...your pardon--d--these things." Vag had hardly felt the bump given to him by the flustered young man in new tweeds, but he found himself helping him to pick up the jumbled mass of desk blotters, catalogues and sample newspapers dropped by his excited assailant. "Freshman, I presume?" he queried. "You bet, the Class of '45 is here,"--and the nit was suddenly off and down the street...
Washington was hot enough to drive a man crazy. The nerves of Representative Frank Whelchel of Gainesville, Ga. were on edge. Just to make things worse, from the room below his office in the Old House Office Building came the incessant bump and whir of mimeograph machines. Mr. Whelchel had complained about the noise more than once. In his soft Georgia accent he had told Truman Ward, who has a concession to duplicate speeches for Democrats, that one day he would "smash the machines to pieces...
Offered a job by the contractor, Cagney is made the stooge for the firm's corruption, goes to jail for five years. Out again he rejoins his wife, and when the contractor appears for emergency dentistry with his strawberry consort, Cagney plans to bump the villain off with dentist's gas. But on seeing the jaded pair, Cagney realizes that he has had very much the best of life. So he merely rips out the contractor's tooth-without...