Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chaed to a hi-fi phonograph. When we finished eating, another girl with a horse's laugh, said, 'Let's play baseball.' So we all got up and pretended to be hitting, catching and running: the object of the game was to bump rumps. Later the girls offered to dance for us. They went out for a few minutes, then came back, twirling hula hoops about their waists while the hi-fi played rock 'n' roll. The evening ended after only two hours, and it cost us a fortune. It was the damndest thing...
...sixth day after the bump, Springhill had just about given up hope for 69 men still underground in North America's deepest mine. Exhausted rescuers still hacked through rubble at a painful 1 ft. per hour, but the women stopped coming to the pithead. Some families bought cemetery plots for their men. The newsmen left for other stories, and the coal-grimed town nursed its grief behind closed doors, wondering dully what it would do now that DOSCO (Dominion Steel & Coal Corp., Ltd., subsidiary of A. V. Roe Canada Ltd.) planned to close Springhill's last mine...
What trapped the men was a "bump," a hazard peculiar to Nova Scotia soft coal mines, in which excavated seams compress with near-explosive force, sending up clouds of gas. Coming at 8:05 p.m., the rumbling shock tumbled dishes all over town. At the colliery, the miners' wives looked at the tagboard and waited. Only a few sobbed. Within an hour volunteer rescuers arrived, each toting 45 Ibs. of special oxygen equipment, and started down the 13,800-ft. shaft. Eighty-one survivors were brought up, their faces blank with shock. But the faces of the others were...
Before he knew what was happening, Lenin found himself high on Reed's and Freeman's shoulders, gazing down on a bewildered crowd. Ignorant of American customs, or perhaps disapproving, he protested, and, when protests did no good, kicked. They let him down, Reed, unabashed, joking at the bump on Penney's forehead...
...fare hike, but that was immaterial. Proclaiming themselves as "defenders of the working class," they seized half a dozen buses and proceeded to the Zócalo, Mexico City's central square, currently being repaved. There the students demonstrated their proletarian solidarity: they played dodge-'em, bump-'em, hot-rodding the buses back and forth through wet cement, hooting, hollering, colliding...