Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ditch. Her twin screws churn up mud within inches of the bottom, tend to make the big ship yaw from side to side. Besides, she was heading south full of highly volatile free gases left (because of an evaporator breakdown) from her last load of crude. A single bump, a single spark, could explode the gas in an instant mass of flame. Skipper Aniello Coppola stuck close to the bridge, watching every move...
...week's end both disputants exited to the same tunes to which they entered, with Showman Billy Rose grinding out a final bump for ASCAP in a parody of Sixteen Tons...
Most unlimited hydroplane jockeys nurse an unlimited hatred for Miss Pepsi. Their own heavy craft are designed to skim the surface, bouncing along on three small hunks of hull. Air flows under the almost flat bellies, and the boats try their best to take off. Almost any bump can send them soaring. In a qualifying run for last year's Gold Cup, Driver Lou Fageol rode Slo-Mo-Shun V into an airborne loop, parted company with his boat, got beaten up so badly when he slapped the water that he quit racing on the spot. In a qualifying...
...late employer who, it appears, was a big-moola blackmailer. Mitchum chases (and is chased) all over Europe before he even digs up this sore-thumb fact, while the blackmail victims-quislings who never quisled because Hitler never got around to invading their countries-earnestly try to bump Mitchum off their vile, traitorous scent. In all, Foreign Intrigue rates as the murkiest black-and-white color film of the year, lacking only a chase through sewers to lend it a more poignant aroma...
...past, Congress and the Commerce Department have been reluctant to spend for air safety. But in view of last month's fatal collision, the supplemental appropriation is expected to fly through without a bump...