Word: rump
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...union leaped to the platform, with a pack of Communist sympathizers, took over the proceedings. The lights flashed off, on, off again. Amid the hullabaloo the Quillsters voted down the anti-Communist resolution, yelled recriminations at those who objected, elected Leftist Congressman Vito Marcantonio chairman of their rump unit. Mr. Marcantonio declined, but he sideswiped the purgers as actors "playing the role of international statesmen. They should go back to ringing doorbells and climbing stairs to get out the vote...
...dissenters forthwith rumped themselves, declared the rump a "reorganization" of the conference they had bolted. Without mentioning bishops, they issued a statement accusing Methodist Church leaders of denying the Virgin Birth and inspiration of the Scriptures, of espousing "modernism, radicalism and communism." The ranks of the dissident M. P.s shortly swelled to 37 ministers and congregations. And they had the small but strengthening assurance that M. P.s elsewhere had done what they were doing: in Mississippi, 47 ministers bolted the Methodist Church; in Michigan, 18; in Georgia and South Carolina, a handful...
...yellow men's attacks were now too busy even to do that. By innocence, weakness, timidity, China had got herself in for what promised to be a furious autumn campaign. Last week the campaign began. The theatre: South China. The tactic: a flanking movement to cut the rich rump of China from every blood supply...
...Orleans, Ferdinand, 1,000-lb. Jersey bull, pushed halfway through a fence hole, devoured a 100-lb. sack of cornmeal, got stuck. To Ferdinand's rump,' Owner William Lashley, lacking a bee, applied the live terminals of an electric battery, shocked Ferdinand free...
...back aboard the Falcon, nearly an hour later, the rescue bell, reeling in the line he had attached (see diagram), was pulling itself to the deck of the Squalus. There, two men working inside the chamber clamped the bell over a hatch like a swollen blister on the rump of the sunken ship. The hatch was opened and Lieut. J. C. Nichols and six seamen climbed into the bell...