Word: lumped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Everyone just stopped and prayed. Their hearts skipped thump after thump as their throats began to lump (with tears...
...Hoyle, if the universe were to be cut in half, local solar-system gravitation would double, drawing the earth closer to the sun. The pressure in the sun's center would increase, thus raising its temperature, its generation of energy and its brightness. Before being seared into a lump of charcoal, a man on earth would find his weight increasing from...
...statesman of Burke's stature would be so unchivalrous as to lump economists in such questionable company-or so unwise as to be without an economist at his elbow. In the palaces and Parliaments of a hundred countries, economists are increasingly called upon to build, revive or draw together national economies. Their home is no longer the ivory tower, and their profession is no longer the "gloomy science" but a romantic and rewarding wielding of power. Lively activists, they range the world in pursuit of the universal goal of economic growth...
...Green Lump. It didn't work. The quite-competent-thank-you British captain saw the launch departing and sent a landing party to see what it might be leaving. "I found a shallow hole," related Ray, "and I threw myself down in it and covered myself with a green cloth. I crossed my arms and put my head down and hoped they wouldn't find me. They almost didn't." But on the second search of the island, one British sailor noticed the green-covered lump and hustled Ray to his feet...
...containers, aluminum, and some chemicals, but Administration economists argue that unemployment and the fact that industry is still operating at 85% to 87% of capacity will hold increases within bounds. Taking a longer look, a few economists and businessmen worry that taxes have been cut too much in one lump. That, they say, raises the danger of an overexpansion later in 1964 which could lead to a day of reckoning some time next year. For the present, however, the only major question is how good 1964 will...