Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fever and diarrhea, so he took the following day off and went to see an osteopath. He got a shot of penicillin, quinine for a suspected recurrence of malaria, and aspirin for the aches and pains−which were worst in his right groin. There was a slight lump there, too. Two days later, with Sakacs' symptoms getting worse, he was taken to Corona Naval Hospital southeast of Los Angeles...
...test best in The Cross of Iron. Novelist Heinrich's officers are petty martinets, Nazi careerists, or weary Wehrmacht regulars who have long since sent their consciences on permanent leave. Steiner tangles with one of them, his Führer-minded C.O., and exposes him for the cowardly lump of jelly he is. In the meantime even the old soldiers die. Dorn and Kern are blasted to shapeless pulp by artillery shells. Schnurrbart is mistakenly murdered by a homosexual German officer settling a private score. It is a quiet day on the eastern front when a stray Russian shell...
...metalworking machine to the next. But its meaning has broadened as fast as its application. A few purists still claim that it should be applied only to completely automatic machines that feed back into themselves reports of how they are doing, and correct themselves if necessary. But most businessmen lump under automation all automatic machines and processes, including the giant tools that follow directions punched on a tape, huge computers that make thousands of intricate mathematical calculations in a fraction of a second, gauges that check fractions of a hairbreadth with a tiny beam of light...
...natural that the 25th reunion found should become the backbone of the annual alumni drive, since by 1925 each twenty-five-year class was giving $150,000 to the College. The custom of giving such a large lump sum began officially in 1906 when the Class of 1881 totalled $117,000. An unofficial move in that direction was made two years earlier, however, when the Class of 1879 raised almost $100,000 for the construction of a new football stadium. The following year, the Class of 1880 achieved about the same amount and designated it for specific purposes...
...Children's mental illnesses vary widely and cannot be pigeonholed into neat categories. To avoid sticking themselves with the pin on a diagnostic label, many psychiatrists prefer to lump all juvenile mental patients under the cliche heading "emotionally disturbed...