Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European banking dynasty; after long illness; in Geneva. Momo was only an incidental banker, whose real interests were art collecting, fast horses and gaudy pajamas. A splashy spender, he was elected (1924) Deputy to the French National Assembly, had his seat booted when a bribery charge stuck, softened the bump by winning a senatorial race...
...Egyptians in jail since April for plotting the dictator's assassination. According to the Information Ministry, a group of officers, ''cashiered for reasons connected with their military conduct" in last November's Anglo-French-Israeli invasion, planned to break in on a Cabinet meeting, bump off everybody, and install a civilian regime headed by Mohammed Salah el Din, 55, Foreign Minister in the last Wafdist government, before Nasser's 1952 revolution...
...deadly mushrooms . . . attracted bees and wasps, letting them alight on her hands and scratching their backs. 'They like that,' " she said. "Like a bacchante after libations," she would stumble along, "nose and . . . forehead covered with yellow pollen, her hair in disorder and full of twigs, a bump here and a scratch there...
...professed amazement over the incident: "I don't have an enemy in the world." Frankie's best guess on whodunit: "I got some dry holes - supposed to be oil wells-in Wise County, Texas. Maybe some big oil company thinks those wells have oil and tried to bump...
Confused While Romping. "O.K., cast," bellowed the stage manager. "Positions, please, for the waltz." Dancers scurried into place under the warm floodlights. Choreographer Jonathan Lucas scampered up a ladder and called: "Pretty faces now; pretty figures, too. Do not bump the Queen, do not bump the Prince and, above all, do NOT bump Cinderella." As Cinderella and her Prince, played by Jon Cypher, a rangy (6 ft. 2 in.) young (25) newcomer from Brooklyn, moved through the dancers, Director Nelson followed closely, again imitating a camera. It was a confused yet sightly romp...