Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position had the simple clarity of a stone wall. One nervous twitch of a Japanese trigger finger, one jump in any direction, one overt act, might be enough. A vast array of armies, of navies, of air fleets were stretched now in the position of track runners, in the tension of the moment before the starter...
...gave U.S. officers words of cheer about what it is like to be dive-bombed. The effect, he thinks, is 90% psychological. If the morale of the bombed outfit is high-as his was-the men will grin & bear it. But he saw many a French driver jump from his truck and run into the woods when the Stukas came over-leaving a truck to block traffic or crack up on the roadside...
...bully who, after getting his ears pinned back for butting in, comes crying to Uncle Sam for help because he started something he couldn't finish. Neither do I approve of war. . . . Since Britain seems to have gobbled up her share of the earth why should she jump on Berlin's paperhanger because he wanted to round up his German people and create a new order in central Europe...
...kids would run whooping and hollering down to the creek, to try for salmon with spears, gigs, pike poles, BB guns, .22s, and even with stones. Sometimes there would be a wounded fish trapped in some shallow pool. Sometimes you could see a salmon leap a falls, or jump the spillway of a lumber company's dam. There would be a dark flash barely under the water, an explosion of water as the fish broke into the air, perhaps 15 feet, and then, if it fell back, a moment when it lay stunned before the current carried it back...
Finally, it is argued that advertising blurbs on the Network would spoil its unique appeal, that "The Nine O'clock Jump" would develop into as nauseating a session as the 920 Club. But it can be assumed that the Network would limit its advertising doses to accord with Harvard tastes...