Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Advisory Group and ECA officials have also emphasized that a modern army needs sound ledgers as well as firepower. Korean commanders no longer receive lump sums of money for their troops, in the old warlord tradition. They are learning the most painful lesson of a democratic army-how to take a budget...
...Saturday the house lost $87,000 in one eight-hour shift ($36,000 in a lump to a plunger named Aaron "Stoney" Stone), but enjoyed a night's volume of $750,000 and was making profits anyhow. When the guests finally thinned out this week the stick men, dealers and special guards were pale with fatigue. The chef had taken to quitting on an average of six times a day. But Wilbur seemed to be making good as a Nevada-type hotel...
...Smith left the U.S. to settle in England with a lump inheritance and a passion for foraging fine phrases from great writers who had created more than mere phrases. He would occasionally turn out such little books as Trivia and More Trivia, in which he rubbed his language to a fine sheen and tried to distill the essence of his new-found cultivation into concise paragraphs. Smith's lapidary phrases were admired by such tweedy literary folk as Christopher Morley, but, reread today, they seem rather cold and feeble...
...effect of the Mundt bill is to lump together actual subversives (of whom few have turned up), idealistic radicals, and people who join sundry "leftist" groups for sundry reasons. The latter two are useful parts of society; the quickest way to bring on a "totalitarian dictatorship" is to suppress criticism from either the right or left...
...department lines. The first project, under the direction of Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, is the Communist Party, past and present. The second is a survey of all sides of the Soviet economy, conducted by Alexander Gerschenkron, associate professor of Economics. The third study is a sort of amorphous lump, entitled Psychology and Social Life, which, along with several "miscellaneous projects" takes up everything except politics and economy...