Word: clump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Neal. "He flew backwards ten feet and down and I was on him like a cat. He's got me mad now. I give him the right, the left, and the right, and the left . . ." Barbara hopped in screaming. Boxer Neal dumped her in a clump of bushes with a black eye. "We're all covered with blood," said Neal. "He's out." A neighbor said that Neal hit the prostrate Tone 30 times. It sounded like a punching...
Aloft, he stripped down to a costume consisting of long red underwear, a blue Mae West and a white helmet, got into his chute-and after heaving out a dummy to watch the direction of its fall-cheerily stepped into space. He floated grandly down, narrowly missed a clump of trees, and splashed into the water where he calmly floated on his back waiting to be picked up. Cried he as a speedboat rescued him: "I feel like...
Harry Truman will speak, bands will blast along Woodward Avenue, 20,000 marchers will clump past Detroit's smoke-smudged City Hall. From the steps, governors, Senators, dignitaries from Britain, France, China, Ethiopia will watch and applaud. One of the paraders will be costumed as Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who paddled through place du detroit-the narrows between Lakes Huron and Erie-and picked a spot to start the furtrading post that became Detroit. In a brisk, well-organized way, this week, Detroit is observing its 250th birthday...
...itself consists of three buildings situated picturesquely in a clump of woods several miles north of the mouth of the Thames. While the location is pleasant and the food well above dining hall fare, the two week session at Red Top is no mere vacation...
Thereafter, Stephen Spender's life was a series of highly successful humiliations. His early humble poems established him as one of the flowers of the new clump of British poets that blossomed in the '30s. T. S. Eliot became his kindly mentor and publisher; an independent income relieved him of the rigors of earning a living. Six months of the year he shared a house with Novelist Christopher Isherwood in seamy-gay Berlin; at home, he was wined & dined by Virginia Woolf, rubbed shoulders with William Butler Yeats, Aldous and Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell. Some poets might have...