Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plunged out of the plane door happy to be leaving a ship that was heading toward flak and more Germans. The jump was from such low altitude there was only a moment to look around in the moonlight after my chute opened. The fields looked so small that one couldn't miss a tree or hedge. Anyway I couldn...
...picked up five more men in the next hour and a half. It was four in the morning before we joined the brigadier general, who headed our jump. He did a wonderful job of assembling men, forming patrols to guard our perimeter and feel out German strength...
...Radio, the press's light-swift competitor, got its biggest break and made the most of it (see RADIO). As it almost always must, radio got the jump on the Big Story. Then it proceeded to steal the show. U.S. newspapers got much of their eyewitness copy from radio reporters...
Spring. In Priest River, Idaho, Farmer J. C. Thomas swore that he saw a bear pick up his 300-lb. brood sow, jump the 4-ft. hog lot fence, and dash off with her into the hills...
...home service] men would be sent over the pond as soon . . . as necessary. Logically then I do not see any sense in doing any more than necessity calls for. . . . Now if Admiral Byrd was to come and ask for volunteers to accompany him on an Antarctic expedition ... I would jump at that type of adventure. Just as in rowing, it seems my temperament is such that where I can punish myself ... it is just fine and dandy. But when it comes to handing it out, I just cannot...