Word: bumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They Like Girls' Pictures." Roy Manring and his platoon were defending a position near Hill 303, a bleak bump in the terrain east of the Naktong River, a few miles northeast of battered Waegwan, when the enemy began to infiltrate the U.S. lines. Roy's platoon leader asked battalion headquarters for reinforcements, and was told that 60 South Korean soldiers would move up shortly...
Your May 29 Science article describes Dr. Gardiner Bump of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an excited and hopeful man looking forward to his experience with the bustard in the Southwestern desert. As a member of the Desert Rats, I view Dr. Bump's enthusiasm with alarm. The crime he intends to perpetrate upon our Southwest is far more serious than that wreaked upon Cambridge and Boston by the lad who introduced pigeons into that region...
...District Court; Columnist Joseph W. Alsop, Jr. '32 of Washington, D. C.; William A. M. Burden '27, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Publisher Philip S. Weld '36, of Gloucester; Attorney Richard H. Field '26, former General Counsel of the O. P. A.; W. Nelson Bump '29, vice-president of Pan American Airlines; and Attorney Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42, 1941 All-American guard...
...Bump's special favorites is the sand grouse, which nests as much as 25 miles from water. It lives on desert seeds and commutes every day to the nearest waterhole. In some still unknown way it brings water back to its grounded young. Dr. Bump hopes that the sand grouse can colonize U.S. bird pastures that are too far from water for any U.S. game bird...
...When Dr. Bump catches his Near Eastern birds, he will ship samples back by air. After the Wildlife Service has decided that they carry no dangerous parasites, are not likely to become a nuisance as the English sparrow did and will not compete too much with native birds, they will be liberated in the most suitable places. If, ten years hence, a startled Arizona hunter flushes a 30-lb., long-necked bustard out of a cactus thicket, he will have Dr. Bump to thank...