Word: rump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governors were unorganized, but slowly, surely they began to move as a team. They elbowed their way into the committees, covered the press room with pronouncements, held small rump sessions in the lobby and the bar. Soon the 100 correspondents at Mackinac found all the news coming from the Governors...
...little man in the damp overcoat was mildly drunk. He scraped his feet over the sawdust, scratched his rump, downed the last of his "mild and bitter...
...Byrd, who has quietly been looking into OWI's wastebaskets all along, was reinvigorated. Washington news beagles were spending many precious hours tracking down the rare and fragrant rumors out of OWI, whence came smells now overripe, now sulfurous. Each day brought rumors of reorganization, employes' rump sessions, secret caucuses. Many an OWIster was quietly looking for another job. The house might not yet be afire, but it was smoking...
Before they said their farewells, the 19th's men danced in the officers' mess with wives and girls, dined on "snaggletooth Texas steer whose rump is stamped 'Suzy-Q, approved,'" and toasted each other at the new Pyote Officers' Club. On the stroke of midnight, an officer stepped to the microphone, asked for a moment of silence "as a small tribute to those we left over there"-to men like Captain Harl Pease, Lieut. Colonel Austin Straubel, Major Dean ("Pinky") Hoevet, Master Sergeant Louis ("Soup") Silva, Lieut. R. B. Burleson and Captain Colin Kelly...
This plywood equipment was easy on the eye as well as the rump and elbow. It was one designer's offering of just what the furniture industry needed: cheapness, mass production, portability, adaptability to clean, gimcrackless modern architecture...