Word: bumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After breakfast, Vag rolled up Bow Street and went bump, bump, bump into Sever for his first class. As a non-Honors junior in English, Vag had chosen three large English lecture courses and one of the more popular History courses. None of these had sections or discussion periods; a fact which had formerly dismayed Vag, but which now rather cheered him. Resting against one wall, his recording mechanism purring quietly as the professor spoke, Vag felt a contentment he had never known before...
...lecture was over and Vag's mechanism rumbled with what passes for a yawn in tape recorders. "No sections, no tutorial," he thought. "No wonder they said junior year was worth waiting for!" Bump, bump, bump, Vag maneuvered his way down the steps of Sever. "Off to fresh woods and pastures new," he mused cheerily as he rolled up the walk to Lamont...
...explain Nikita Khrushchev's U.S. trip, just as the Legion's leaders were drafting an assault on the visit, including a condemnation of President Eisenhower for issuing the invitation. Weary (40 & 8-playboys near his hotel suite had given him a restless night) and limping (a bump on his knee had turned into a painful case of bursitis), Nixon nonetheless got in his licks. A burst of applause greeted his statement: "It [the Khrushchev trip] could contribute to the chance that we can settle our differences without war, and it is for this reason I believe the visit...
Rockefeller got blooded in venture capital by helping round up $3,500,000 to refinance young Eastern Air Lines in 1938. He saved the day for one of his boyhood heroes, President Eddie Rickenbacker, who almost lost control to a bump-Rickenbacker group. Rockefeller took 24,400 shares of Eastern at $9; each is now worth $155 on a pre-split basis, and Rockefeller, with $3,970,000 worth, is Eastern's biggest stockholder. In 1939 an unknown plane designer, J. S. McDonnell, came to him with some paper plans for an advanced type of fighter. Rockefeller...
...train to Westport (so goes the story), a junior advertising executive was eagerly reading a book in a plain wrapper. The train hit a New Haven bump, the book fell to the floor, and the title was revealed for all to see: The Status Seekers. By the rules of status seeking, it was a serious goof: no smart social climber wants to be caught showing too much interest in the book, since anyone in secure social status should be above any concern with the restless and near-universal scramble for position that Author Vance (The Hidden Persuaders) Packard undertakes...