Word: lumping
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...rinse their noses with water after sniffing to wash away the irritants.) To avoid the impurities of street coke and obtain a greater jolt, more users are resorting to freebasing. After dissolving a substantial quantity of coke in an alkaline (basic) solution, they boil the brew until a whitish lump, or freebase, is left. The lump can be purified further by washing it in a strong solvent. Then it is smoked, often in a water pipe. That way a highly concentrated dose is absorbed into the blood even faster via the lungs than through the nasal membranes...
...secret plans for the future," O'Brien says, adding, "When property is available at a reasonable price it has thus been sensible for the University to buy it." The possibility that Harvard would convert a portion of its extensive commercial holdings to institutional use sits like a lump in the throat of many city officials because that action would exempt the property from the tax rolls. "Harvard buys more and more property as opportunities come up," Vickery says, "and I'm concerned that they might convert some of those buildings," despite strict new guidelines on institutional expansion...
Democratic Candidate Johnie A. Rodebush stressed religious faith and told voters he feels a lump in his throat every time he hears the national anthem. It was not enough. Nonetheless, Rodebush looked like a liberal in Michigan's mostly rural Fourth Congressional District, which had three times elected David Stockman, now the President's program-slashing budget director. In fact, Stockman's own choice, John L. Globensky, his former campaign manager and a similarly obdurate conservative, was rejected by voters in the March 24 primary. The man who beat him, and who last week swamped Rodebush...
...arts of the past, in the arts of yesterday; and he still has to be invented." By this, Thoré (like the artists he spoke for) meant man as political creature, man seen in his manifest social relations-not the decorative peasants of Boucher or the squalid, undifferentiated social lump the French bourgeois imagined the proletariat to be. The task of realism was therefore to record, in Weisberg's phrase, "human needs and social symptoms" -contemporary life, arts, tensions, suffering...
...that there are some incorrect words that exist in associative chains with the correct ones for which they are substituted, implying a kind of "dream pair" of elements in the speaker's psyche. The nun who poured tea for the Irish bishop and asked, "How many lords, my lump?" might therefore have been asking a profound theological question...