Word: bumps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...yards behind the grasshopper plane of Lieut. General James Van Fleet, the light plane carrying Under Secretary of the Army Archibald S. Alexander crash-landed on a mountainside near the eastern front. He telephoned the U.S. to assure his wife that his injuries were slight (two black eyes, a bump on the head, one broken foot bone), then flew home to a big welcome in Washington...
...welfare activities), Churchill last week turned his old phrasemaking genius on Attlee & Co. Most striking Churchillisms: "Mr. Attlee [leads] that cluster of lionhearted limpets, a new phenomenon in our natural history . . . who are united by their desire to hold on to office at all costs . . . Our affairs drift and bump and flop...
...Moody's appointment boosted the Democrats' slim majority in the U.S. Senate by two votes, changing the line-up to 50 Democrats and 46 Republicans. The increase gives them the right to bump one Republican off a major committee. Possible choice: Wisconsin's noisy Joe McCarthy off the Appropriations Committee, where he can make trouble on State Department requests for money. Probable Republican choice to succeed Vandenberg on the powerful Foreign Relations Committee: Owen Brewster of Maine, no isolationist but an outspoken enemy of the Administration and of Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...early afternoon it gets very hot in the cage. One of the players-sweating off weight in a rubber suit under his blue-sleeved uniform--is obviously no kid. He's Elbie Fletcher, former Pittsburgh and Braves first baseman and a friend of Stuffy's. Fletcher, working with Bump Hadley on a Boston sports broadcast, spends considerable time working out with the varsity aspirants. "He's trying to get into shape to play with a western Massachusetts league this summer," somebody offers...
...such thing as 1) a hoop snake, which is supposed to put its tail in its mouth and roll downhill when frightened, or 2) a milk snake, which is supposed to sneak into barns and milk cows, or 3) a cannibal snake, which supposedly eats its young. Another bump of curiosity is excited by the Old Testament. Questioners want to know if Adam was divorced (from Lilith, according to Jewish folklore); whom Cain married (possibly his sister Awan); who was Noah's wife (probably Naamah). For no reason that Chapman and his associates can figure out, the most recurrent...