Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state taxes that have been growing explosively in recent years (see chart). The nibbles from those taxes come a little at a time every day or every payday and thus seem less aggravating. Only the property tax looms up once a year (or sometimes once a quarter) as a lump-sum payment of hundreds or thousands of dollars. As such, it is an easy target for people who often feel that the very homes they live in are being threatened...
...serialization rights for a total of $1 million to more than 40 newspapers and magazines round the world, authorized those customers to rush into print four days before the official release date. Times editors reluctantly printed the paper's five-part series of Ends excerpts in one hasty lump and accused the Post of excerpt envy. (The Post had been prevented from buying rights to the book because the Washington Star had first bids, as a regular Times Syndicate customer.) Said a top executive of the parent Times Co.: "Officially, we're pissed." The ill feelings...
...Hullo, I just found a lump of coal...
...anniversary; in Montgomery. After the Governor sued for a no-fault divorce last September, Cornelia countersued on grounds of "physical cruelty and actual violence." The legal battle promised to be lurid, but minutes before the trial was to begin, an out-of-court agreement was announced, giving Cornelia a lump sum of $75,000 in alimony, some lake property and household appliances...
...gliding around second base without ever losing his cap, it is Willie Mays soaring through center field space, snaring a foolishly ambitious triple in mid-arc. But baseball is also a hungry kid with visions of a big league paycheck waging war in a dusty sandlot game, swallowing the lump in his throat as the big rainbow curve whirs towards his head, wanting to bail out but afraid to do anything but take a big man's cut and slice the air as the rainbow follows down and away for strike three. It is the agony of the minor leagues...