Word: lumping
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...that a representative of the War Department had promised Louis that his debts would be cleaned up if he fought, and even that his back income tax of $117,000 would be paid up-the latter a manifest impossibility, since he must pay heavy Treasury taxes on any new lump sums he now earned. Not many tears fell. Millions, had wanted to know whether the young Irish sharpshooter could cut down the great Bomber. Only a few of the more emotional sportswriters bled much in print, and up rose no wave of public indignation. The U.S. as a whole...
Lenin. "A master mind and a genius in revolution," a "lump of ice covering a blazing fire within...
...lump of this material the size of a sugar cube weighed about half a billion tons...
...gave OCDirector James M. Landis a fine lump on the head, by reading aloud a passage from an OCD order calling for the blackout of Government buildings: "Such preparations shall be made as will completely obscure all Federal buildings and nonFederal buildings occupied by the Federal Government during an air-raid for any period of time from visibility by reason of internal or external illumination. Such obscuration may be obtained either by blackout construction or by termination of the illumination...
...machine-gun trunnion block, on which the gun swivels. When it is forged, i.e.., pounded, into rough shape out of a hot chunk of steel, it weighs 20 lb. In machining the block into shape, 14 lb. of steel is drilled, planed and ground away before the crude lump becomes a finished 6-lb. trunnion block...