Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French air force out to Britain. Hauled up before an air commodore for this escapade, Wintle whipped out his revolver and declared: "If it will help you to realize that I am perfectly serious, you have only to say the word and I will blow this stump of my finger off." Said the air commodore: "If you do it, don't make a bloody mess." Upshot was that Wintle was clapped into the Tower of London, where the admiring Scots Guards on duty plied him with whisky, cigars, and duck in aspic. But Wintle refused to let them clean...
Having made her third stump speech of the day, Militant Mary drove away to make four more. Following her to the platform was Paul B. Johnson, balding Hattiesburg lawyer, who has twice before been defeated for governor. "Four years ago," Johnson recalled, "a lousy Negro from Jackson, paid by my opponent, said, 'Sorry, Mr. Paul, if it hurts you, but all us Negroes is for you.' " Flushing with resentment at the memory, Johnson cried: "A Negro lie will not defeat Paul Johnson this time ... As long as I am governor, there will be no intermingling of the races...
...eardrum-rupturing explosion, then another, sent blinding clouds of smoke and dust billowing into the air. Jagged pieces of steel ripped into scores of bodies. Cries of pain and terror rang out. A young woman stared in silent dismay at her Weeding leg stump. As survivors scattered in panic, a few more navy planes roared in low over the plaza. Two more bombs burst. From upper windows of the nearby Navy Ministry, machine guns sprayed the Pink House...
...tornado, sixth and worst in Blackwell since 1912, destroyed and damaged 500 houses, hurt 493 people and killed 19, caused a $10 million loss. The whirlwind ripped surfaces off the highways, wrapped a big electric refrigerator around a tree stump, tossed a wrecked pickup truck onto the second floor of a ruined brick house. Sweeping north across the amber wheat, the deadly funnel killed one family's five children in Oxford, Kans. A farmer three miles south of Udall saw it coming: "It sounded like a bunch of jets and looked black as an oil slush pond. I didn...
This was a real shock to most observers who had figured Estes Kefauver as presidentially deader than Daniel Boone. Harry Truman, who has resented Kefauver since the 1951 crime hearings, is aware of the Keef's continued strength. That is one reason Truman has recently taken to the stump in praise of Stevenson...