Word: humped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather have "sponsored programs than a Socialist government," Baxter and other Tories voted reluctantly with their party, in favor of the white paper. They consoled themselves with the reflection that TV licenses will not be issued to private enterprisers until the long-term defense program is well over the hump. For the next five years at least, Britain's "mature and sophisticated" public seems safe from the blandishments of commercial plugs...
Nature's vagaries were not so simply faced in Australia. Monsoon, rains sweeping in from the Indian Ocean across the northern hump of Australia have created a rich patch of cattle-raising country about the size of Texas. But in the recent monsoon season (November to March), for the first time in living memory, the rains did not come. Not only the northern pasture land, but the whole top half of Australia began to dry up. Within six months there was hardly a blade of grass in an area the size of Western Europe...
Yale jumped off to a two run first inning lead when Andy Ward walked the first three batters he faced and Eli captain Phil Mathias hit a hump back single...
Career: Byroade is a Regular Army colonel, on loan to the State Department. During World War II, he built air bases in India for the vital "Hump" route and 6-29 bases in China. General Marshall made Byroade his right-hand man during the ill-fated Chinese truce negotiations of 1945-46. He was temporary brigadier general at 32. Marshall brought Byroade to State, where he became chief of the German Affairs Bureau...
...back on such words as restless, troubled, intense, obsessed. But Greene is not the kind of man who makes a vivid first impression. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), frail and lanky, he dresses like a careless Oxford undergraduate, walks with a combination roll and lope that emphasizes a slight hump between his shoulders. Physically, he is an easy man to forget (one old acquaintance remembers him simply as "badly made"), except for the face with its wrinkled skin that looks as if it had shaken loose from the flesh, and the startled, startlingly washed-out blue eyes, slightly bulging...