Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wouldn't want to repeat the '60s. Students today feel burdened by the '60s, that they have something to live up to. The Baby Boomers are like the pig in the python, they'll be a big lump at every stage...
...result has been confusion about the value of mammograms among both doctors and their women patients. Janet Gay Hamby of Thousand Oaks, Calif., was 44 and the mother of two teenagers when she discovered a lump in her breast two years ago. Two mammograms suggested that it was malignant, and when a biopsy confirmed the diagnosis, Hamby underwent surgery and radiation treatments. Because cancer cells had invaded a lymph node, six months of grueling chemotherapy followed. She knows that the chance of a recurrence will remain high for about another year. Says Hamby: "My prognosis is good, but it would...
...Ndiaye and the 13 other African students, Harvard College can be lonely and frustrating. Although the continent has more than 30 countries, Westerners tend to lump all of them, from Angola to Zimbabwe into one cultural mass. African students say they sometimes face blatant ignorance of their home countries and Africa as a whole. Dorkus K. Mamboleo '91 says a classmate asked her which part of the United States had a town called Kenya. And Ndiaye says fellow students have asked him, "Do you live in a hut?" and "Do your cousins look like the people on TV from Ethiopia...
...most temperamental femme fatale? What movie star can most quickly bring a lump to your throat? Whose acting skills can make you gasp in admiration? Who is the fanciest dude on the screen today? Enough. The questions are too easy, and you already know that the answers are not Cybill Shepherd, William Hurt, Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy...
...contracts in purpose on this lonesome figure and even Ginsburg #2 stirs and wakes long enough to speak: "Man, what would happen if Richard Nixon turned on? I mean, if he just had one joint, man--he'd call the whole thing off..." and out again, a dormouse, a lump of cloth once animate but no more, and turning to contemplate the mystery of a consciousness come and gone I to realize, thinking to my self: holy shit, I'm driving, and turning to the wheel a panic of road-leaving, a blurry desert scene suspension-crunching horror flash...