Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assured him. Meantime the London Dally Herald had confidently announced that Italian funds for Arab rioters were coming into Palestine through French Syria. Bedouins were promised $15 a day, plus food and loot, for attacks on Palestine Jews. The last payment of which the paper professed knowledge was a lump sum of $25,000. To whom it went the paper did not say, but many British fingers pointed privately to fuzzy-chinned Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Supreme Council. A sincere Arab patriot, fuzzy Haj Amin has no particular love for Italy...
...sales volume to make money. President Paepcke thought that quantity would be his company's salvation. But to conservative Boxmaker Brunt, whose credo was quality, the Paepcke policy seemed all wrong. Stubborn, he started a proxy fight to oust his young boss, lost in 1931. Accepting a lump-sum settlement for his salary contract, Brunt...
...Party's "inspiration, evocation and formulation of a General Will'' among Russia's millions. The Party is outside the constitution; it broods over the body politic like the spirit over the waters. Its aim is, by precept and example, to leaven Russia's lump. To this end, half its membership is kept ''at the bench or in the mine;" the other half act as overseers to Russia's babeling pyramid of committees...
...early," stages," Dr. Little continued, "there is absolutely no pain connected with cancer. It is merely the rapid growth of certain tissues far in excess of the surrounding ones. The thing to watch out for is the sudden enlarging or change in consistency of a mole or lump under the skin that one may have had since childhood. When this happens, competent medical examination should be made to determine whether cancerous tissue is involved in the change...
Bette is enthralled by Leslie's dying splendor, because so far she has known only a primeval lump of brawn that plays football. And Leslie in turn looks wistfully upon her eager energy. But nothing would come of it all if it weren't for the entrance at this point of Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart), a savage killer who reminds the granddaddy in the picture of Billy the Kid and the other old-time desperadoes. The Duke imposes a reign on terror on the little roadhouse, and precipitates all sorts of emotional shifts, strains, and crises. Leslie decides that...