Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice of 1) Option A, under which the face value of the bonds remains the same, but interest is slashed in half or more, 2) Option B, under which the value of the issues is cut from 20% to 50% and interest is reduced. But bondholders get a lump sum up to 17% of the bonds' value...
...once: when Churchill presented the Stalingrad sword (sent as a gift from King George VI "to the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad"). Stalin shivered almost imperceptibly, raised the sword to his lips and kissed the scabbard (see cut). President Roosevelt watched, deeply impressed. Others thought they saw "a little lump clumping in his throat." Almost inaudibly, Stalin thanked Churchill and the British...
...disappearing friends. Lieut. Colonel Beirne Lay Jr. described the sensations and sights of the Regensburg raid in last week's Saturday Evening Post: "A shining silver rectangle of metal sailed past over our right wing. I recognized it as a main-exit door. Seconds later, a black lump came hurtling through the formation, barely missing several propellers. It was a man, clasping his knees to his head, revolving like a diver in a triple somersault, shooting by us so close that I saw a piece of paper blow out of his leather jacket. He was evidently making a delayed...
...Miserables. At first the peasants would stare at a prisoner and say: "Look at the Jew." But one day Hélion jokingly rolled a lump of coal toward a little girl. She ran off with it. Next day her father, one eye on the guards, gratefully slipped Hélion a meat sandwich. From then on the peasants realized "that we stood together on the same side of the castle: the slave quarters...
More Fun. Old Exterminator finally petered out, bringing a lump into Scott's throat and the feeling that "my sword had been taken away." But Scott put her old guns into his new ship, and they soon became the machine's "real soul." Sometimes he would think of his family and feel homesick. Once he told General Chennault that he wished he could just press a button that would kill all the Japs and let the squadron go home. "Aw now, Scotty," said the General, "we don't want to do that. . . . Think of how much...