Word: bump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a settlement, it is unlikely to do so unless an agreement is reached quickly. Lead singers were released from their contracts on Sept. 30, and many of them doubtless will sign with other companies. "You could get a domino situation," says Baritone Sherrill Milnes. "The famous tend to bump the less famous, all down the line." After another dispute with the orchestra that led to a three-month shutdown in 1969, the Met did start up in midseason. But its performances suffered because many leading singers had already signed elsewhere. This time, says the Met, there will...
...Bump Gresham...
...CHINA, they say, scientists are learning to predict earthquakes by studying barnyard animals. When the pigs snort and hens cackle nervously, researchers know the tectonic plates will soon commence to bump and grind, and the earth to heave...
Once the Torrances are settled in, Kubrick refuses to characterize the hotel as a conventionally haunted house. Its corridors are brightly lit, nothing goes bump in the night. Even the strange visions, when they begin to appear, are not necessarily to be seen as spooky apparitions, but as the hallucinations of a mind - Nicholson's - allowing itself to be drawn toward the violent conclusion the child has foreseen...
Harvard's Brendan Meagher opened the scoring when he reached back and whipped one in between Princeton netminder Peter Cordrey's legs. Cordrey tried in vain to bump it out with a leg but only deflected it to the ground where it rolled in with 3:38 gone...