Word: bump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason of his own, Caniff wanted more. In Florida, when he was 18, he was bitten by a mosquito and got phlebitis, an inflammation of the veins that made the Army-and insurance doctors-turn him down. Because of his quick-clotting blood, says Caniff, "even a bad bump on the leg could bump...
Suddenly there was a bump, then a shudder. The cockpit was stove in; hydraulic lines burst, spewing fluid over the flight deck. The radio went out. Not knowing what had hit them, the DC-3's pilots brought the disabled ship to an emergency landing at the nearby field at Aberdeen. No one was really hurt...
...naked, woolly-haired Nuba tribesmen who live in the Otoro Hills, deep in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, did not wait for the cocktail-bar moralists; the Nuba have been euthanasians since way back. Once they are sure that a tribesman is possessed of a djinn (evil spirit), they bump him off. Everybody (in the Otoros), of course, is quite certain that djinns inhabit the bodies of the lame, the deaf and the dumb...
...Line. In Detroit, Thomas Oliver, charged with threatening to bump 1946 model cars with his ancient jalopy, explained: "I hate people who own new cars...
There had been the by-election in Pontiac, Quebec, lost to a Social Crediter, and the by-elections in Toronto-Parkdale and Portage la Prairie last week, lost to the Progressive Conservatives. The worst bump was raised by Portage. The Liberals had not only fought hardest there to keep the seat, Liberal for the last eleven years, but the election had been decided on an important national issue (TIME, Aug. 5). The farmers had shown that they did not like the wheat agreement, under which Canadians sold wheat to Britain at far less than the world price. Yet the Liberals...