Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...posts. FBI agents blocked the doors, the overhead cranes jolted to a sudden stop. Out of the Presidential train rolled the White House phaeton, its top down, the bulletproof windows up. Franklin Roosevelt stepped in. Chrysler's wise, bulky President K. T. Keller eased into one of the jump seats...
...Philippines were lost. Admiral Hart suggests, in the first two days, when the Japs caught the Army's planes on the ground. In the whole Luzon-to-java campaign "the Japs had to go to Luzon on their first jump. This was the place and the time to have beaten our enemy in the air. On those fields were more than twice as many P-40s as the A.V.G. ever had, but again we failed to take much toll of the Japanese planes. That first day or so was our chance in the air and we missed...
Coming at a time of general dissatisfaction with the progress of the war, the Post is cleverly attempting to create a new band wagon on which our escapist groups can jump. These foreboding prophets say that "there is one rock or truth to which the common man may cling--economic freedom." But the common man has already given evidence that he is willing for the government to assume as much power as it needs to win the war. He has also shown that he expects the government after the war to prevent a return of the runaway competition which...
What prejudiced observers call the toughest thing this side of the trenches, the Naval R.O.T.C. conditioning program gets under way today on Soldiers Field with strength tests in chinning, push-ups, body lever, and standing broad jump...
Delighted to read of the "gremlins" in this week's issue. They must be distant cousins of the "saskwatchs" who come up from the Penticton beam every night and ride along over the Cascade mountain range on our Trip 4. They jump off over Cranbrook and do an instrument letdown into the Kootenay valley to visit friends there, returning several hours later on Trip...