Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mark Bingham followed with a soft double into the left center field gap. After a ground out, Peccerillo lofted a fly to deep right. The Jumbo right fielder turned over the wrong shoulder in pursuit down the field's gentle downslope toward the distant lacrosse goals and had it bounce off his glove for a double and a run batted in. Pec then came around on a quail to right by freshman center fielder Dan Skaff...
...more than McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed. These two companies have run out of steam because neither has launched a new model for the short-to medium-haul market. Says the consortium's French president, Bernard Lathière: "Three years ago, there were three major companies in the [jumbo] market-Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed. Today there are two-Boeing and Airbus...
...expert at deciphering gobbledygook might lend a hand to C. Milton Allen, senior vice president of Houston's Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. For the past two months, he and 15 aides have been waging a bleary-eyed battle to make sense out of not just that mumbo-jumbo masterpiece but plenty of others like it. The language is from the pricing regulations drawn up by the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) to enforce Jimmy Carter's Stage II guidelines. The rules were supposed to put some muscle into the White House's campaign against...
Nehemiah is still only a sophomore at the University of Maryland. "He's practically a baby, and he's already run these miraculous times," marvels Villanova's Coach Jim ("Jumbo") Elliott, one of the leading coaches in the sport. Last Friday night the youngster further embellished his indoor record this year by winning the national Amateur Athletic Union Championship...
...Jumbo Elliott calls Nehemiah the smoothest hurdler he has ever seen and, indeed, Nehemiah visualizes his event as a nearly unimpeded run down a straightaway. "I try to run right through the hurdle, as though it's not even there," he says. "A lot of hurdlers, you can see the jump when they run. With me, it's more or less running, then an exaggerated stride for the hurdle...