Word: stump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirits. Once past his prankish teens, Bandoola began racking up work records that made him famed in the Burma of the '20s, '30s and '40s. In one season, he extracted 300 tons of teak and pushed and dragged it an average distance of two miles from stump to floating stream...
After their official Navy sedan conked out, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Robert B. Carney and the Pacific Fleet's commanding Admiral Felix B. Stump, on their way to a reception for Carney at Pearl Harbor, proceeded in a style to which they are unaccustomed. Hitchhiker Carney arrived in a small British sports car, Stump in a half-ton pickup truck...
...their membership difficulties, college officials have been trying to relieve the situation for freshmen and sophomores. It does not seem probable that Princeton men will be allowed to entertain women in dormitory rooms past seven o'clock in the near future, and the college has shown no inclination to stump for liberalized New Jersey Liquor laws. But a former administration building is now undergoing redecoration as a "Campus Center," complete with commons rooms, recreation facilities and snack bars...
Some things do stump Mrs. Baker and her assistant, Early this year a wife called and asked her to find a person who could take, care of her chinchillas which were sure to bring the struggling couple a fortune someday. Now her toughest assignment is trying to find somebody who wants to have horses trained because one of her "children" prefers this kind...
Will President Eisenhower take the stump in the critical House and Senate election campaigns next year? The question, as it was popped early in the President's press conference last week, was charged with Washington's sensitivity to the new political currents. Ike's answer was imprecise in detail, but it wrapped up clearly, nonetheless, his own deep personal feelings about the presidency...