Word: rumped
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...potent weapon but an unruly member, cut loose with an all-out show for the voters, mixing mock tears with invective, prayers with abuse, fireworks with slaps of the cold towel. His language got him in the kind of trouble he likes best: name-calling. The little rump-sprung Mayor, who has been campaigning New York City for 24 years, had a far shrewder appreciation than his opponents of the delicate art of abuse. He started the ball rolling by putting the name of Governor Herbert Lehman (backer of his opponent, William O'Dwyer) into the same paragraph with...
...been a matter of deep concern to me that the inexpressibly vulgar invasion of the rump of the Widener Reading Room by those women from Shepard Street has gone unnoticed and unprotested. The matter's true significance, in my eyes at least, may be surmised from the fact that it has elicited from me my first letter to a newspaper...
...Muroc Dry Lake in May 1940 for its first flight, the flying wing, like most airplanes on the ground, looked terrible. Tailless as a Manx cat, it squatted on a three-wheeled undercarriage. Its wing tips (span 38 feet) drooped forlornly. Two pusher propellers poked out of its rump like something an insane designer had tacked on as an afterthought. From its blunt beak thrust a long rod carrying the head of its airspeed indicator. It looked like a ruptured, weather-racked duck, too fatigued to tuck in its wings...
...ballet, Drums Sound in Hackensack, proved that Choreographer de Mille, like her movie-directing Uncle Cecil B., has a touch, and the touch made it seem that, among the New Amsterdam Dutch of 1650, there was no situation which would not be improved by a saucy twitch of the rump...
...Audubon House to cock their eyes and twitter over a new set of Southern bird pictures. Few bird lovers would crook their necks to look at a Rembrandt. But they will flock like wild geese to see a well-drawn picture of a roseate spoonbill's rump sticking out of a swamp. And these pictures were unusual, not only for the meticulous exactitude with which they depicted the spreading wings of buffleheads, warblers and herons, but for the realism with which they reproduced the iridescent sheen of their plumage. Painted in thin oil paint on specially processed illustration board...