Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been for the Nazis, Villon might never have done so well as an artist. With his wife, he fled Paris a jump ahead of the German army in 1940 and spent three disconsolate months near Toulouse. There he did the first landscapes of his career-neatly representational sketches that might have been made by an architect on vacation. Then he wandered back to Paris and spent the rest of the war years turning out cubist paintings based on his landscape sketches...
Following the pattern set in all meets this spring, Carl Olsen's half and mile runners swept their events, while sprinter Dick Weiskopf won both the 100 and 220 yard dashes. The '52s also took first and second in the quarter and the broad jump, and a first in the hammer...
Jimmy Roosevelt had been hanging around the banks of California's muddy political swimming hole all spring, testing the water with his toe, bouncing tentatively on the springboard, and obviously preparing to jump in any minute. Early last month, on the anniversary of his father's death, he got a big push-30 Democratic California businessmen gave him a private dinner at Los Angeles' swank Chasen's Restaurant and pledged $50,000 to back him in politics...
...Smith. Harried housewives wonder how long it will be before belief in true democracy can scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very...
Cried Durocher: "I did not punch anybody. I did not jump or step on Fred Boysen ... If I had done any of those things ... I would have walked right up to Horace Stoneham and [resigned] . . . because I know that I would be through with 'baseball." Leo said he had merely given a shove to somebody who came up behind him and who, he thought, was trying to grab...