Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airplanes, ships and other war products stops. It is afraid that its federally owned factories may be nationalized or dismantled. It is afraid that when the war with Germany ends, the war with Japan will keep it absorbed for another couple of years, while the East gets the jump on it in reconverting to peace. Oregon and Washington have had similar booms, now have similar worries. And the industrial fates of the hinterland western states, as suppliers of metals and other raw materials, are closely linked with those of the Coast...
Blignaut and Botha ushered Chanke into another room, slipped a noose around his neck, threw the rope end over a beam. Then they ordered the sweating native to stand on a chair and jump. Chanke collapsed, unconscious. The noise brought other clerks, arrest for the sportsmen. Sentence: $100 fines for Blignaut and Botha. Newpapers suggested that the Government should remove such Afrikaners from authority over the Bantu...
...tried three times to make the door, but every time the ship took an evasive action and threw me some place else. I finally got to the waist window and was going to jump when I noticed my chute had ripped open. I was bruised all over and my left shoulder felt as if it were gone...
...less essential than the dogs, but far better known, are the bookmakers. Big tracks license 150 or more for each meeting. Two shillings (40?) is the totalizator minimum bet. But greyhound bookies. who wear bowlers and an air of everlasting love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...
...SEVEN JUMP FROM PLANES WITHOUT PARACHUTES." The story: three Canadians, four Englishmen jumped from a Lancaster bomber over southern Sweden after the Stettin raid "all unhurt . . . astonishing feat." In other papers the astonishing feat was qualified by a fact that Dagens Nyheter did not print. When the jump was made the plane was over southern Sweden, but it was on the ground...