Word: hops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year she skipped note taking entirely to see if she could learn better; she read piles of books, grew rapidly fonder of science, spent nights in a sleeping bag atop her dormitory to try to understand the theory of the expanding universe. She was also Vassar's hop, skip and jump champion, but dating never interested her. "I think I would have liked to go out more," she recalls. "But I just hadn't met anyone I thought was worth giving an evening to. I was pretty absorbed...
Before leaving for Rome, though, Ohiri had competed unofficially with Ghana, Sierra Leone, and the U.S. He jumped 60 ft. to defeat U.S. Olympian Ira Davis in the hop, step, and jump...
...traveling U.S. track and field team, hungry for new victories after easy broad jump wins over the Russians, the Germans and the British. Since there were no serious contenders to oppose him in the broad jump, he also offered to substitute for an ailing U.S. teammate in the hop, step and jump-one of the few events in which Boston has never competed seriously. "I don't know how far I can go," said...
...Taylor was frantically trying to get a plane ride back to Europe. "I've got 10,000 sons," he kept telling his wife, "and they're my responsibility." On Christmas Eve, 1944, Taylor gave his two boys, Tom and Jack, their presents, and finally was able to hop a cargo flight across the Atlantic. Just three days later, Taylor jeeped into Bastogne with the first elements of the 4th Armored Division. Taylor found McAuliffe coolly getting ready for dinner. "No damned reason to be worried about us," said McAuliffe. "We're ready to attack...
Quarter to Three (U.S. Bonds; Legrand). His name really is U.S. (for Ulysses Samuel) Bonds, and he sings in a voice so gravelly that he suggests a whole convention of really nasty-sounding hop-trotters. The chaotic results are what buyers of this bestseller deserve...