Word: bumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autopsy revealed that an infection, coupled with a heavy bump on the head, probably caused Serhant's death. Apparently he had carried an infection for several days and then passed out in his car, striking his head...
...first three years of his life, Billy was just another blue-eyed, blond youngster playing noisiiy and energetically with the neighbors' kids in Phoenix. Then one day he was hit by a car. Except for a bump on the head, he seemed unhurt and soon he was out playing again. But within a few days, he fell on a playmate's porch and lay there in a convulsive seizure. At the hospital, his parents learned that Billy's brain had been injured when...
...savings are net to the U.S. taxpayer. A riffed employee who is a permanent civil servant usually gets slotted (reabsorbed) in Washington. Another can sometimes bump (push out) the man below him, and move down into his job. The bumping process can presumably continue until only the office junior is riffed...
...shepherd, a bull or a swan for purposes of dalliance ("Though the girls are squeezable," leers Cupid, "with a swan it isn't feasible"). Jupiter (well sung and acted by Baritone Ralph Herbert) takes Juno and the other gods on a junket to Hades, where they bump into Eurydice; after a few random shots from Cupid's bow, everything ends in a happy shambles. The "go-to-hell" joke is worked pretty hard in the dialogue, but that is offset by Offenbach's tunes. At least two of them. An Old Love Dies and Brunswick Maine, could...
...Kate will be released in four shapes and sizes this November: 1) small screen flat, 2) small screen 3-D, 3) large screen flat, 4) large screen 3-D. Meanwhile, many movie-men were beginning to think that 3-D was less a shot in the arm than a bump on the head: box-office returns on the latest 3-D films are showing a steady decline from the top grosses of such early novelty hits as Bwana Devil and The House of Wax. Because many theater owners believe the profit on 3-D pictures is not yet enough...