Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brave, powder-stained old warrior-statesman who had already taken his place in history beside Grant and Lee, Pershing and Farragut. The very sound of his name-after a steady diet of heroes who seemed half-ashamed of being heroes at all-seemed to leave millions with a lump in their throats and a cheer on their lips...
...Anything to declare?" a customs officer asked the Hon. Mrs. Graham Lampson, just back from France, in London's drafty Victoria Station one day last week. "Half a hundredweight [56 Ibs.] of coal," she replied. And there it was, in her immaculate suitcase, each lump neatly wrapped in tissue paper. Mrs. Lampson, daughter-in-law of Baron Killearn, first British Ambassador to Egypt, explained that French friends, concerned over Britain's critical fuel shortage, had given it to her so she could keep warm...
...morning calm of a Hollywood bar. An Air Force lieutenant with a brunette date asked Hilton to tone down his language. Instead, the lieutenant got a sock on the nose and some advice: "Bums like you ought to be in Korea." The Air Force counterattacked and Hilton got a lump behind...
...years from completing his 20-year stretch for burglary, Convict Holmes broke through in a grassy plot outside the prison walls, hopped over a 7-ft. picket fence, and disappeared into the surrounding city of Baltimore. Nobody missed him until next morning, when a guard checked a motionless lump on Holmes' bunk. It was a wadded blanket and a pillow...
Guns & Pork. The budget-cutters were also beginning to cast a flinty eye at the Pentagon, which was down for the lion's share-a lump sum $41.4 billion of the coming budget. There were doubtless millions to be saved by resisting the Pentagon's request for a blank check, and making the admirals and generals come up with some specific figures...