Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washingtonians love the inelegantly deprecatory nickname for high-priced gathering places. Another: the exclusive Burning Tree Club, which is also known as Smouldering Stump...
...yarn plunges forward scene after scene hints at the pleasures and hardships of frontier life: homesteaders dancing and setting off homemade explosives at a July 4 party; bloody fistfighting in a saloon; little girls solemnly watching a sow with her sucklings; the ring of hand axes against a stump; tumbleweed brushing the legs of jittery horses; a harmonica solo of taps as a pine coffin is lowered into a hilltop grave Without recourse to tricky 3-D photography and Polaroid glasses, Stevens, with ordinary Technicolor camera and sound track has given his flat old story a real third dimension...
...window was beheaded by a piece of flying glass. Then oxygen tanks stored in the warehouse began exploding; gasoline and oil drums caught fire and burst, raining like napalm on the fleeing throng. Many were trampled to death. '"Their cries," said Fireman Surrey, "were terrible to hear." A stump-armed firefighter careened through a gutted street shrieking: "Where is my hand?" Then he collapsed...
...point in his recent campaign for president, Dwight D. Eisenhower took the stump to inveigh against "Harvard words" and Harvard men in the United States government. This may have influenced the voters in Kansas City, but once the Eisenhower administration is underway anyone who makes a short survey of our Washington bureaucracy will still find it riddled with Harvard...
...seventh British by-election since Winston Churchill's Tories returned to power. Both sides rolled out their biggest guns: Laborite Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison took to the stump for Labor, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden toured Wycombe's village greens in a soaking rainstorm for the Tories, and Winston Churchill sent a rousing message urging the voters not to be taken in by the "wild caterwaul of abuse...