Word: lumping
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...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...
...professionalism is a badly mangled term. It's the kind of label that magazines and newspapers love to slap on students to describe the so-called "new mood on campus." But rarely does their reporting venture further than generalizations that lump all students together under on pre-professional umbrella. Pre-professionalism therefore has its share of continually perpetuated myths and untruths...
...Franken, a promoter who stages two of the indoor season's largest California meets, admits that appearance fees are paid, often in a lump sum to managers of track clubs, who then distribute the cash among members. Asks Franken: "What's wrong with getting paid for doing something well...
...supposed to be her first routine medical checkup as First Lady, but Rosalynn Carter learned some unpleasant news at Bethesda Naval Hospital: she had a suspicious lump in her breast. With characteristic directness, Rosalynn, 49, wanted an immediate answer as to how serious it was. Captain William Fouty, the surgeon who directed the removal of Betty Ford's cancerous right breast, ordered the lump removed, under a local anesthetic. The laboratory report showed the growth to be benign, and Rosalynn headed happily home. The next morning, word came that the First Lady was "in great spirits." She even took...