Word: bumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amsterdam is opening again. Philips, Europe's greatest exporters of electric bulbs and radio equipment, is operating at 60% of capacity, expects to hit 100% soon. The Dutch, who use bicycles as Americans use autos, may have to wait until 1950 for new ones, and meanwhile will bump along on solid tires over unrepaired streets...
...Connie Grayson, 23, who was picked mostly because she was the lightest (106 lbs.) of all the G.I.s at Cambridge. The Americans called themselves "Bull College," after their billets in the famed Bull Hotel. They practiced three times a week for four weeks, trying to learn the mysteries of bumping races. The boats line up one after another, two lengths apart, and each tries to catch the shell ahead. Once the prow of the overtaking boat actually touches the other's stern, the overtaken boat loses one place. (The best place to bump is in a narrow part...
...times. He had cameras set up at each turn, at night studied the movies like a football coach looking for faults. The night before the A.A.U. four-man bobsled championship last week, he was at it until 10 p.m., walking the course, inspecting every angle, every little bump...
Like any man who has spent 32 years in politics, Jimmy Byrnes has a well-developed bump of caution. Lost in a storm over Moscow last week, he fretted : "You know, we might run into the side of a mountain." His interpreter, Charles E. Bohlen, pointed out that there were no mountains "around here." "That's fine," said Byrnes, "but do you know where 'here' is?" After a full hour of circling they landed, and Byrnes, in a tan topcoat and low pointed shoes, alighted in Moscow's sub-zero weather...
...Burly, bump-ahead Andrew Jackson Higgins last week called three of the executives of the Appliance Division of Higgins Industries, Inc. into his office. Calmly he made them a present of the appliance business. While the three men listened with jaws ajar, Higgins dictated a letter to his secretary...