Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mother Said Go! When underground workers are caught the Germans often torture them to make them talk. If it is a strong man, they have to torture him nearly to the death to get anything. They take off the fingernails with tongs, knock the men down and jump on their chests, emasculate them. Last winter my superior was caught. Other people in the underground said perhaps he would be tortured and tell the Gestapo my name. They said: "You had better stop working for at least six months...
...around or cried in your beer listening to Billie for a long, long time, and are on the verge of either turning square or going over the hill to New York, you will be able to get some amount of kicks out of one or two of the local jump bands. The best of a poor lot of these bands is probably Sabby Lewis, who once in a while looks up from the book and plays something resembling good jazz. When this is over everyone orders another bottle of Pick-wick, adjusts his dark glasses, and sighs nostalgically...
...mile event, Ed Swett placed third, while Jack Noble took third in the 800. In the broad jump, Cliff Wharton was second with a jump of 18 feet, 2 3/4 inches. No other Mikkolamen placed in 11 events...
Another contributor was Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch of Wausau, Wis., who took third place in the broad jump, then drove 160 miles to Bloomington, Ind., to pitch Michigan's nine to its sixth successive Big Ten triumph...
...idol was Illinois' brilliant Negro sprinter, Claude Young of Chicago, who was aiming at the four-way triumph scored by Ohio State's great Jesse Owens in 1935. With the 100-and 220-yard dashes and the broad jump safely tucked away, the stubby freshman was leading by 30 feet in the 220 low hurdles when he kicked over the last barrier, lost his footing on the rain-drenched cinders, and fell flat...