Word: clump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, a good reporter can outsmart a dozen cops. Last week Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin (circ. 160,271) made fiction into fact. To the Call's city desk came word that a 17-year-old girl had been found beaten to death in a clump of bushes in San Francisco's Mission Park. The staff hopped on the story and Reporter Bill Walsh soon turned up the names of the girl's boy friends...
While hunting butterflies one afternoon, Dubkin explored a dense clump of trees near an outlying factory. One tree was so loaded with vines that it looked like a green igloo. He climbed to the top and fell through with a crash. The mound was hollow and dark inside, and full of squeaking bats. A great peace of soul descended over Dubkin; he had found a tribe of gay little friends, and he had also found a much-needed refuge from his widowed, too-possessive mother...
...seven passengers. At Teresópolis, northeast of Rio, rain-loosened mud and rocks thundered down a hill, burying a freight train, a warehouse and four railhands. A Panair do Brasil DC-3 undershot the Uberlãndia airfield, 500 miles north of Rio, and crashed into a clump of trees, killing nine and injuring 23. But of all the week's disasters, the famed Rio Carnival was the worst. Rio's festival record: 22 dead and 4,612 injured-including 196 hit by cars, 330 tumbled off trams, 53 bitten (13 by other people, 33 by dogs...
...most original talent in Hollywood musicomedy; the new picture makes his claim secure. As a dance designer-performer, he is equally adept in Hollywood's most ambitious ballet and in a delightfully informal number setting I Got Rhythm into the form of an English lesson for an adoring clump of French children...
...remains were found last Monday in a clump of bushes near the Cambridge Cemetery. She disappeared last July 4, after leaving home to pick wildflowers. So far, it has been reported that a fracture was found at the base of her skull. Miss Freuder gave lessons in German to Radcliffe students...