Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This could doom the initiative. Reagan's request last year to lump many domestic programs into block grants, a much less ambitious plan than the current one to turn back responsibility and money to the states, foundered on the rocks of the committee system, where it encountered resistance from both parties. As Democrat Leon Panetta of California points out: "The committee chairmen, who are the fathers of these social programs, will not be at all eager to see them terminated...
After leaving the university, he develops a tumor on his neck. Without seeing a doctor he diagnoses the lump as the accumulation of "swallowed tears." It is confirmation that if a person suppresses his suffering, he will be devoured by the suffering buried within. When Zorn finally consults a physician, a more clinical diagnosis is offered: the growth is malignant. Cancer comes as something of a relief; the pain and suffering finally have a name...
...enact their own. The President's triumph was the latest skirmish in a seesaw struggle over spending that has gone on since the founding days of the Republic, even though Article I of the Constitution theoretically gives Congress primary power over the federal purse. The first Congresses appropriated lump sums that Presidents George Washington and John Adams and their Cabinets could spend as they wished. Later legislatures captured effective control of federal finances, but the pendulum swung back to the White House under a succession of strong-willed modern Presidents, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Nixon Administration haughtily...
Glicklich. who is on leave from the Graduate School of Education, had charged the doctors with failing to diagnose and treat correctly a cancerous lump in her right breast, which spread to her brain and became inoperable...
...with a perfect site (the old Briggs Cage track facility) vacated, and a healthy lump of alumni donations. Harvard gave the Columbia Construction Company of Reading the go-ahead to begin work on the new court...