Word: lumped
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...curdle the hollandaise, lump the simple white sauce, hack away at that suckling pig . . . we'll take Julia and her savory shortcomings...
...which they would be operating at dawn. The polyp, about the shape and consistency of a tiny button mushroom, was growing from the right vocal cord. Surgeon George A. Hallenbeck of the Mayo Clinic and Dr. David P. Osborne, a Navy surgeon, examined the presidential abdomen, where a lump the size of a golf ball protruded near the scar left by his gallbladder operation. Then the two groups of surgeons got together in a skull session with the anesthesiologists and the President's two personal physicians to settle details of what everyone would do in the morning...
...prom. We decided to hold it at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in the Grand Ballroom. I made it look just like a gymnasium. Then what happens? I was the only girl not asked to the prom. My father is a very sensitive, perceptive person, so he said, 'Look, Lump, we'll get your cousin to take you.' My cousin! Think of the humiliation! And my cousin, she didn't want to take me either...
Lack of understanding about trends in crime rates may be even more harmful. I think I am right that when we seek to interpret health trends we look separately at the figures on tuberculosis, lung cancer, and measles. We do not lump these together and add ulcers, colds and athlete's foot and then seek to make a gross judgment about how we are doing...
...enthusiastic press previewers launched a crusade extolling its virtues in terms usually reserved for such timeless Americana as the Gettysburg Address. Though Years of Lightning can now be seen by all, it is largely for the moviegoer who measures the magnitude of an experience by the size of the lump in his throat...