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Word: humping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earned him the nickname Rosie, O'Donnell was a light, fleet West Point halfback before obtaining his commission in 1928. He led B-17 Flying Fortresses defending American positions in the Philippines early in World War II, later evacuated Allied troops from Burma and airlifted supplies "over the hump" of the Himalayas. After receiving his first general's star in 1944, O'Donnell led the first land-based B-29 raids on Japan-which six years later became his headquarters when he was chief of the Far East Air Forces Bomber Command, directing strikes against Communist targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 10, 1972 | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth, and licentious usurious economics...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: If We Must Die | 10/27/1971 | See Source »

...unexamined hump at first of no interest lifting out of the beach at last devoured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry Today: Low Profile, Flatted Voice | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...assembled in one group," but they talk ("Holy Cow! That's plumb ding-y!") like the Beaver Patrol on an overnight hike. Dent's villains are far zingier. They have names like Ull, Ark, Var, Zoro, Rama Tura, "The Sinister Count Ramadanoff" and "The Horrible Humpback"-whose hump, by the way, is packed with nefarious electronic gear. One of his nastiest creations is an Eskimo known as Heck Noe (humor is hardly Dent's forte). Others have long pointy ears, or keep secret laboratories in hollow mountains, or come from an advanced civilization in the center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Gore of Yore | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...despotic reign of his father, Sultan Said bin Taimur, Muscat and Oman* as the country was known before Qabus shortened the name-was not far removed from the 15th century. Fearful that social and economic development would corrupt traditional Islamic values, Said turned his land, perched on the southeastern hump of Arabia near the gates of the Persian Gulf, into a 112,000-sq.-mi. jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: Starting from Scratch | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

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