Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Promptly at 9:30 p.m. on Good Friday last week, a grotesque lump of a man emerged from the medieval Roman Catholic church in Corsica's olive-growing village of Sartène. Barefoot, masked in a blood-red hood with eye slits, the bent figure staggered under the weight of a massive oak cross. From his right ankle dragged a clanking, 31-lb. chain. And from under the hood came an anguished, muffled chant: "Perdonno, mio dio . . . Perdonno...
...Loves will put a lump in the throat of everyone who likes to have one there. Debbie Reynolds is a battle-fatigued Snow White who flees from the hurly-burly of life as a movie star to her place in Connecticut, and discovers six dwarfs and a dog living in a greenhouse at the bottom of the garden. Their names are Leo, Sherman, Dulcie, Amy, Brenda, Sonny and Butch. Leo is the grumpy one, and Sonny won't talk. In scenes brimming with heigh-ho, Debbie and the tots, who are really the abandoned children of a migrant tobacco...
...full, rich, empty life. He is Decker Wells, 6 ft. 3 in. tall, a high school senior about to become a freshman at U.C.L.A.. where his major will be "kind of general, maybe I'll end up in business administration." With his fellows he stands "in a lump," distinguishable only by name, weight, hair coloring, and small variables within high-bracket Pasadena youth society...
...Lump of Sugar. In the space of three days, Tshombe 1) promised to "abstain from making any declarations against the U.N."; 2) immediately broke his promise by threatening "a scorched-earth policy" in Kolwezi (see WORLD BUSINESS) ; 3) was clapped under house arrest by infuriated U.N. officials "to restrain him from further irresponsible acts"; and 4) got his house arrest commuted to a nighttime curfew by leading the U.N. troops to the Rhodesian border. Then, having baffled everybody, he vanished once more from the capital...
...because they had acted as mediators for Tshombe in hopes of arranging a ceasefire. He spurned a $2,000,000 gift from the British government because of its "subversive policy" on Katanga, and one of his officials sniffed: "We are not a little child who can be given a lump of sugar to keep quiet...