Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somebody asked a question about coal. Lilienthal stretched out his hand. "A lump of coal that I could hold in my hand wouldn't give much heat, would it? The same amount of uranium would yield the equivalent in heat of 3500 tons of coal." He doubted that we could rely on coal much longer: "It is the one spot where we get both economic instability and class conflict." Steady economic development and stable social relations are not possible as long as we rely on coal; as for using atomic energy, "There's a whale of a lot of energy...
Like It or Lump It. The U.P.'s Merriman Smith fired the first question. Had the President been correctly quoted about the possibility of still sending Chief Justice Vinson on a mission to Moscow? Truman asked sharply whether Smith had read the quotation in the story in the press, told him to read it again...
...turned again. The New York Herald Tribune's Carl Levin asked whether the interview represented "a softening of your attitude." No, the President said. Then he paused, squared his shoulders, and told the assembled reporters that they could like it or lump it. The President was his own free agent, he said. He would see whom he pleased, when he pleased, and say what he pleased to anybody he pleased, and he was not to be censored by them or anybody else. He didn't like their attitude this morning and they ought to cool...
...Above all. do not take a laxative; it may cause a disastrous rupture of the appendix. For doctors, Dr. Boyce also has a suggestion: tell patients in advance what to do if they think they have appendicitis. For keepers of vital statistics, he has this criticism: don't lump together all deaths from appendicitis, whether caused by the chronic or the acute form of the disease. This obscures the seriousness of the acute form, he says, which, with its complications, actually causes 99% of all appendicitis deaths...
...Shiner's grave occurs a scene to raise a lump in the gullet of the steeliest projection machine. Snowy potters about, planting flowers, leaving a cross and "a glass dome, full of waxen flowers and fruit, with a marble scroll curling through the flowers, and SHINER, in fine long letters cut in it." He takes pictures of the grave, "and a heat of grief bit into him." He looks up, past "doves flying white in the blue," and prays, "Oy, you want to watch out. There ain't all that many of 'em. Please. Look after...