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Word: bumming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their contract. It all seemed to have something to do with a case of Scotch in their dressing room. Gary, 26, oldest of the quartet, says he lost his voice, but regained it long enough, during the boys' final set, to call a ringside lady "a drunken bum." Cutting the act very short, the lads fled back to their dressing room, where they bloodied Gary's nose and otherwise clouted him for crabbing the routine. After the bout, Gary rested briefly, then plodded to a nearby bar, expressing a simple sentiment about his hard-knuckled brothers: "I made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Anybody who's ever had anything to do with politics knows who the guy with the bum arm is," Councillor DeGuglielmo said. He thought the Election Commission was duty-bound to give the voters an honest election, and that it should check all ballots notarized by this person to see if they have in fact been altered...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: DeGuglielmo Urges City To Launch Investigation Of Absentee Balloting | 10/31/1959 | See Source »

...Tell That Bum." In court last week, Hume put on the performance of his life. He yawned, hummed, shouted abuse, and tossed his black curls as witness after witness told what had happened that fatal morning. When the president of the court, mild-mannered Dr. Hans Gut, began with the formality of asking the prisoner his name, Hume snarled at the interpreter: "Tell that bum that he should know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: The Slippery One | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...court when his successors make their case for extraditing him on charges of murder, embezzlement and complicity in murder and embezzlement. As the out-of-season strongman put up $25,000 bail, a Miami Beach neighbor, Radio Station Owner A. Frank Katzentine, squawked loudly: "If he is such a bum, why did the U.S. decorate him [in 1954] with the Legion of Merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Cool Eye for Dictators | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...picture is mostly one long, gun-slinging showdown that fairly oozes blood and bathos. One tough gets his right through a poker table, another is mowed down by a sawed-o^ shotgun at close range. The hell-bent kid is killed by mistake by one of his own saddle-bum chums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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