Word: lumping
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Johnny swallowed a lump of sugar after every fourth mile. He nursed his 37-year-old legs up & down hill for 26 miles and 385 yards, turned into Exeter Street to see a pretty sight-no one in front of him. He had won the run ten years ago, finished second six times since. Asked why he kept at his punishing pastime, Kelley replied: "Some people play golf in the rain, some stay up all night. Running is my hobby...
This being a dinner for "company," my friends went at it with relish, despite rattling dishes and window panes, constantly shivered by V-2 and buzz-bomb blasts all around. Their eagerness to share their little with me did more to create the lump in my throat than did the thought of their plight...
Every part of the U.S. and Canada is now being teased-by mail, telephone and telegraph-with their slick promotion patter: "unusual opportunity" . . . "quick profits" . . . "get in on the ground floor." Discharged servicemen, who get lump-sum mustering-out pay, are given top priority; a Buffalo, N.Y. ex-serviceman began receiving tip sheets from Toronto within a few days after a Buffalo paper printed his picture...
...leave five nurses behind to care for the most serious cases and to assist in the operating room. For a moment I couldn't see how I could choose five when I myself was not allowed to remain. So I decided to ask for volunteers. ... I had a lump in my throat at the hands which went up before the words were scarcely out of my mouth, and at the cries of 'Please let me stay!' ... As our trucks pulled away at dusk, it was the saddest day in my 32 months in the Army...
...dealer once proposed having one of his sculptures cast, Degas became violent. "Have it cast! Bronze is all right for those who work for eternity. My pleasure consists in beginning over & over again. Like this . . ." he shouted, and seizing a nearly finished clay dancer, mashed it into a sodden lump...