Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some who have tried: Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich, Dizzy Trout, Waite Hoyt, Gus Mancuso, Jack Graney, Harry Heilman, Gabby Street, Pie Traynor, Bump Hadley, Mickey Heath, Dizzy ("He slud into second") Dean, Buddy Blattner, Frankie Frisch...
...Bump on the Forehead. Cattle experts believe that the epidemic of dwarfism may be a result of breeding beef cattle for squat, spraddle-legged, "blocky" figures. This type wins prizes in shows and brings high prices at the stockyards, but animals selected for their blocky shape may be precisely the ones most likely to be carriers of dwarfism. The dwarfs are blocky too, and in other ways are caricatures of the beef-cattle ideal. An expensive, aristocratic bull may be the cause of a bad outbreak of dwarfism...
...carrier cows and see if his calves are ever dwarfs. This takes a long time, so the cattle experts are trying hard to find some other system. Dr. Paul Wallace Gregory of the University of California at Davis has invented a "profilometer," an instrument to detect the slight bump on a bull's forehead which shows that he may be a carrier. Sometimes X rays are used to look for the "crumpled" vertebrae that carriers sometimes have. Chief obstacle to cleaning the herds of carriers is the cattle fanciers' love of low-slung critters likely to carry...
...slum children. But when Frankie was good, nobody paid any attention to him; so he decided to be bad. That settled, he developed a morbid fear of being touched; he began to rough his mother up; he led his gang in brutal street fights; finally he decided "to bump a guy" who had offended him. "I feel loose," he tells his accomplice as they wait giggling in the shadows for their victim, like little boys fumbling in a dark closet for the cookie jar. "Like I was made for gettin' even...
...Yevgeny Klevtsov grabbed a machine designed to test his grip, squeezed the needle right off the dial and immediately began bawling for a meter that could show just how strong he really was. The grind had hardly begun when a member of the Polish emigre team tried to bump Italian Ace Dino Bruni into the gutter. Bruni kept his balance, but one of his volatile teammates unfastened his bicycle pump and bent it over the Pole's head. Out of Lodz, hell-bent for Stalingrod in the fourth lap, the pack got handlebars tangled, and 25 riders dived into...