Word: lumped
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...ever seen, but nobody's mad." In the carnival atmosphere, pitchmen picked up many a rapid dollar peddling balloons to kids. "Is this American or Cuban sugar?" asked one apprehensive citizen. Assured the U.S. was buying no sugar from Cuba these days, he munched his lump with satisfaction. Another man had another problem: "I've been drinking...
...doctor's office with a sore throat, swelling on one side of his face and neck, and enlarged lymph glands. The boy recovered in a couple of days without treatment. Next came his three-month-old baby brother, also suffering from a swollen neck, fever, and a lump bigger than a golf ball at the base of his neck. The baby had apparently never been scratched by the family kitten, but Dr. Snyder concluded that the lump in his neck was his thymus gland, swollen by a cat-scratch infection that had probably penetrated the skin through a rash...
...hard to do if you've never had a baby. Learning to walk like a pregnant woman was not easy either. I didn't exactly go around staring at them, but whenever I saw one I'd try to notice how they walk with that big lump sticking out in front of them...
Laid low by a lump in his neck, ebullient Comic Jackie Gleason, 46, underwent surgery in Manhattan last week, rebounded with rotund resiliency and was soon eating and talking and eating...
...will be around forever. At Wellesley last week, he prophesied: "The imitation of external reality is a fundamental human instinct which is bound to reassert itself." To prove his point. Sir Kenneth talked about two kinds of painters-apes and children-whom the crudest of critics like to lump with the abstract expressionists...