Word: bump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity hockey team will bump into a tough customer at the Arena tonight when it seeks to return to winning ways against the ever formidable skaters from BC. Game time is 9 p.m.; Tufts and MIT open the program...
When he is asked to describe his Government career, 55-year-old Assistant ECAdministrator Wayne Chatfield Taylor gives a rueful one-word reply: "Bruises." A New Deal stalwart for 17 years, ex-Investment Banker Taylor picked up many a bump as Assistant AAAdministrator, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of Commerce (he directed the famous wartime eviction of Sewell Avery from Montgomery Ward), and president of the Export-Import Bank...
...certain of the judge's remarks did not fit the Court's own definition of fairness, were prejudicial to the case. Gladstein wanted him to declare a mistrial. "I won't do it," said the judge. "If you expect me to sit here like a bump on a log you're making a big mistake...
...January, he drained 99.999999 percent of the air out of the cyclotron in a vacuum test. The main chamber has to be free of air molecules when in operation, so that the spinning electrons won't bump into anything...
...innocent gaum O'Casey woke up with a bump to find that most people were clay after all. When his proletarian plays were staged by Dublin's Abbey Theater, many critics hissed maliciously and poets looked nervously the other way. Even pioneers, O'Casey discovered, fear public opinion; even democrats get a kick out of wearing striped pants and top hats; even noble esthetes enjoy walking with one foot in the gutter. Sean was shocked to find that stately, plump Oliver St. John Gogarty surreptitiously read whodunits ; that refined Lady Gregory reveled...