Word: lumping
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...today the pressure seemed to have lifted itself, at least temporarily, gathered its forces, and landed heavily in one big lump on the shoulders of one person, Maggie, and she was feeling it. She was the one who was being seat raced this morning, and even though no one said anything, everyone knew it. Two weeks before, she had developed tendonitis as a result of rowing incorrectly and had asked Parker if she could have ten days off--she could feel the resentment about that, as if Parker had given her a vacation. Now she was getting another chance...
...Year in 1972, but a groin injury, a viciously torn cartilage and a broken arm have kept him in the game sporadically until a few weeks ago. Since then he's been terrific, but every time a runner comes hustling home with spikes high you get a lump in your throat-there's something doomed about the guy. Red Sox fans have nightmares about this sort of thing after what happened to Tony Conigliam. But we've wandering...
Bird is at her weakest in overstating the financial advantage of not going to college. She plays games with statistics, arguing that if a high school graduate invested the equivalent of four years' college costs in a lump sum in a savings bank and went to work, his lifetime income (including compound interest) would exceed the earnings of a college graduate. The greatest fallacy in that line of reasoning is the fact that high school seniors do not have the $25,000 or $30,000 representing their college costs in a lump sum to invest. Nonetheless, Bird is correct...
...hearing aid for a deaf left ear, a painful lump on his right kneecap diagnosed as Osgood-Schlatter's disease, a hiatal hernia and a limp-the result of a World War II shrapnel wound. He also has a history of alcoholism, and after his first marriage failed, he suffered a nervous breakdown...
...skin. Nor was Nolen impressed by the results of the operation. The surgeon held up the blob he had been concealing in his hand and told Nolen he had removed a tumor. Nolen, who has removed enough tumors to know what one looks like, recognized the tissue as a lump of fat, probably from a chicken...