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Word: lumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brave, powder-stained old warrior-statesman who had already taken his place in history beside Grant and Lee, Pershing and Farragut. The very sound of his name-after a steady diet of heroes who seemed half-ashamed of being heroes at all-seemed to leave millions with a lump in their throats and a cheer on their lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hero's Welcome | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...Anything to declare?" a customs officer asked the Hon. Mrs. Graham Lampson, just back from France, in London's drafty Victoria Station one day last week. "Half a hundredweight [56 Ibs.] of coal," she replied. And there it was, in her immaculate suitcase, each lump neatly wrapped in tissue paper. Mrs. Lampson, daughter-in-law of Baron Killearn, first British Ambassador to Egypt, explained that French friends, concerned over Britain's critical fuel shortage, had given it to her so she could keep warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Coals to Victoria | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...morning calm of a Hollywood bar. An Air Force lieutenant with a brunette date asked Hilton to tone down his language. Instead, the lieutenant got a sock on the nose and some advice: "Bums like you ought to be in Korea." The Air Force counterattacked and Hilton got a lump behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...years from completing his 20-year stretch for burglary, Convict Holmes broke through in a grassy plot outside the prison walls, hopped over a 7-ft. picket fence, and disappeared into the surrounding city of Baltimore. Nobody missed him until next morning, when a guard checked a motionless lump on Holmes' bunk. It was a wadded blanket and a pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARYLAND: Under & Out | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Guns & Pork. The budget-cutters were also beginning to cast a flinty eye at the Pentagon, which was down for the lion's share-a lump sum $41.4 billion of the coming budget. There were doubtless millions to be saved by resisting the Pentagon's request for a blank check, and making the admirals and generals come up with some specific figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plenty of Cooks | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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