Word: rump
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...Lapp sat beside me on the precarious vehicle, not improved in design since the stone age, and all was well. But then the caravan stopped for an instant, the Lapp got up, handed me the crude reins, grinned encouragingly, and was gone. There I crouched, staring at the jiggling rump of the reindeer, going like crazy across the virtually trackless forests, over ditches, tree stumps and fences. By the time the day was over, I had fallen off only once and had learned to speak the reindeer language fluently; this consists chiefly of the word brrrr shouted at the animal...
...peddling jobs in wholesale lots. The charges turned out to be true enough. A steady parade of smalltown postmasters and rural mail carriers told how they had paid or "contributed" from $250 to $1,000 each to get their appointments. One postal employee had even "contributed" $750 to the rump committee to get transferred to another city...
...Rules Committee will move its rump aside for a moment and take a good look at the aid bill, it will discover something that will do more to keep Asia on our side than all the guns and technical aid that this country has poured into corrupt and undemocratic governments. Perhaps then it will...
...lose jump points is by "dusting," touching the water with the rump as the skier comes down...
Edward Easton, chairman of the striking unit, promptly denounced the "rump group," charged that the letter was a "strikebreaking maneuver ... apparently in cooperation with management." Said Executive Editor Lee Wood: "We wouldn't do anything like that...