Word: lumping
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...husband, whom she married June 27 declaring "I've never been in love, really in love, before"; on grounds of extreme mental cruelty (she complained that Ernie refused to fire his 60-year-old maid, saying, "If you don't like my mode of living, you can lump it"); in Santa Monica...
Everyone just stopped and prayed. Their hearts skipped thump after thump as their throats began to lump (with tears...
...Hoyle, if the universe were to be cut in half, local solar-system gravitation would double, drawing the earth closer to the sun. The pressure in the sun's center would increase, thus raising its temperature, its generation of energy and its brightness. Before being seared into a lump of charcoal, a man on earth would find his weight increasing from...
...statesman of Burke's stature would be so unchivalrous as to lump economists in such questionable company-or so unwise as to be without an economist at his elbow. In the palaces and Parliaments of a hundred countries, economists are increasingly called upon to build, revive or draw together national economies. Their home is no longer the ivory tower, and their profession is no longer the "gloomy science" but a romantic and rewarding wielding of power. Lively activists, they range the world in pursuit of the universal goal of economic growth...
...Green Lump. It didn't work. The quite-competent-thank-you British captain saw the launch departing and sent a landing party to see what it might be leaving. "I found a shallow hole," related Ray, "and I threw myself down in it and covered myself with a green cloth. I crossed my arms and put my head down and hoped they wouldn't find me. They almost didn't." But on the second search of the island, one British sailor noticed the green-covered lump and hustled Ray to his feet...