Word: rump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally delivered from Red hands. Under Phil Murray's personal direction, anti-Communist unions that had been seceding in disgust for years, were ordered to re-apply for membership. When the Reds refused to seat them, an emissary from C.I.O. headquarters led the anti-Communists into a rump meeting, took over all books and records, and left the Reds holding an empty...
Menace to Hoomanity. The shmoo is a small animal which looks like an animated ham. From its round rump a plumpish neck narrows toward a tiny head; from above a sparse mustache, a pair of trusting eyes peer myopically but ingratiatingly at the world. In the words of the greatest living authority on shmoos: "They lays aigs at th' slightest excuse! They also gives milk. And as fo' meat-broiled, they makes th' finest steaks; fried, they come out th' yummiest chicken." The shmoo is so sensitive and so eager to please that when a human...
...pound. They are just as tender, have as much flavor, and are actually leaner (after I have trimmed them), but your husband makes too much money for you to use them . . . A chuck roast can be cooked just as tender and is every bit as flavorful as a rump or loin tip, though it won't slice as pretty...
Among the rebellious rump of doctors, some were bitter-enders. Said one 63-year-old stalwart: "I'm an individualist. I'd rather cut my throat than sell my free dom." Said a smart practitioner with a large country practice: "I serve both my bank balance and my patients by staying out. There's no call for cheap services here, save for chauffeurs and gardeners...
...South was still grumbling. Memphis' Boss Ed Crump snarled: "I'm for anybody except Harry Truman. Any good Democrat will get my vote." But he added that there was no truth in reports that Southern states would hold a rump convention. Even without the South, Harry Truman seemed to be in. National Chairman J. Howard McGrath announced that his rock-bottom figures showed the President with a minimum of 900 of a possible 1,234 votes on the first ballot...