Word: humping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Air Force Major General William H. Tunner, a World War II commander of the India-China airlift: "We who worked the Hump always knew that what was done there could be picked up bodily, carried to any part of the world, and started up again." Two years ago, as commander of the Berlin airlift, Tunner carried the Hump operation to Germany. Last week he started it up again at Korea's Kimpo airfield...
...seven-week-old Pacific lift is a miracle of improvisation. The man who did most to make the miracle is MATS' deputy operations commander, Major General William H. Tunner, who bossed the 1948 Berlin airlift and was a wartime director of the hazardous air shuttle over the Hump...
Hardly less striking than the short-term benefits of ACTH are its side effects. Many patients develop a severe acne, mental symptoms, a moon-shaped, swollen face, "buffalo hump," diabetes or hirsutism, i.e., a woman may grow a mustache and beard, but, along with other ill effects, they usually disappear after treatment is stopped...