Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luise Rainer packed her things in Manhattan for a return to Hollywood after four years, planned to make it a 15-day trip, cried: "I will jump in every river and eat sausages out of my hand and see the sun come up every morning. Really, that is my ideal of life...
...bold, bearded (35) John Thompson of the Chicago Tribune floated down from the night sky with a flight of tough U.S. paratroops. It was his second invasion jump (the first: near Tabessa, Algeria, last November). He crashed through an olive tree before he hit the ground, cracking a rib, wrenching a knee, skinning his knuckles. His tired old secondhand portable typewriter got to earth in a parachute bundle. Thompson found it, hid it behind a stone wall. But by the time the paratroops had taken Vittoria, someone had stolen his portable...
...Broad-jump 13 feet...
...High-jump 3 feet, 6 inches...
...declares, "were rejected as unfit for military service, and a majority of those accepted . . . did not possess skills necessary for self-protection. It is estimated that 50% of our armed forces, when inducted, cannot swim well enough to save their lives, and lack the strength, agility and endurance to jump ditches, scale walls, throw missiles and stand up under forced marches...