Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title notwithstanding, Gypsy is a singularly sobersided affair until midway in Act II, when a trio of tassel-tossing campaigners bump, grind and bring down the house in an indelicate air for the G-string called You Gotta Have a Gimmick. Burlesque may have killed vaudeville, but a lot more of it might cure Gypsy...
Also hampering the Yale attack was Bump Howe's brilliant goal-tending. Using his lacrosse stick like a combination baseball bat-broom, Howe not only stopped Eli shots but often swept the ball far upfield. He turned in 26 saves in the game...
...Steel output jumped to about 2,363,000 tons, up from 2,288,000 the week before. If the rise continues at this rate, the industry this week will bump against the alltime high of 2,525,000 tons, poured in the week of Dec. 17, 1956. Then the industry was operating under a strain at 102.6% of capacity. Now it is breezing along at 83.5% of 1959's greatly expanded capacity...
...turboprop Electra had more than lived up to its billing: normal flight time from Chicago at the Electra's 400-m.p.h. cruising speed had been sliced a third. And the big aircraft had winged 713 miles eastward through almost steady rain at 21,000 ft. with barely a bump...
...plight of a homeless cat can reduce her to tears. She drinks too much, writes too little and apparently wants nothing but the affection that a pointless life has denied her. When the young Russian named Dima comes along, the accident of love is as inevitable as the bump of a skidding taxicab on the Pont Royal. Their love affair begins with a drink, a look and a touch. It flames, gutters and flames again...