Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most Routine Way." "You wouldn't believe it unless you saw it," he said. "Yesterday and the day before there were hundreds of Jap civilians-men, women, and children-up here on this cliff. In the most routine way, they would jump off the cliff, or climb down and wade into the sea. I saw a father throw his three children off, and then jump down himself. Those coral pockets down there under the cliff are full of Jap suicides...
Ballot II. Ballot II was a thrilling battle until the break came. At the quarter-mark, Wallace led, 148 votes to Truman's 125, with seven key states "passing" (waiting to see which way to jump). Then Ed Flynn brought in 74½ New York votes, and Truman went ahead for the first time. The score: Truman 246; Wallace 187. Then Favorite Son Bob Kerr, Governor of Oklahoma, withdrew his name: 22 more votes for Truman...
...Fund a ¾% service fee. After three months it must also pay ½% interest, after a year 1% interest, after two years 1½% interest, after 3 years 2%, etc. Furthermore, if a nation's borrowings reach more than 25% of its original stake, these interest rates jump ½%; on borrowings over 50% another ½% etc., etc. Thus large or prolonged borrowing soon becomes too expensive to continue. As a further check, if the interest gets up to 4% the Fund will talk things over with the borrower. Then, if the interest gets to 5% because the borrower...
...time Harwood had reached the eighth grade, he was clearing 8 ft., 6 in., although at the time his real ambition was baseball. It wasn't until his junior year at Exeter that Harwood discarded everything else and concentrated on the pole-vault, finishing the season with a jump...
...expert jumper, Dr. Little now gives demonstrations in precision parachuting, lands within 20 ft. of an X marked on the ground. This was his 23rd jump, his first nonpractice jump...