Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holding all of Europe in our power, but they are all waiting for the time when they can jump at our throats and take vengeance. The world could not keep defeated Germany down permanently; who can believe that we can keep the world down permanently? What have we got to offer the people outside? Things are getting worse and worse for us here; how then will they get along? We have to bear a lot, but what can be done with them? I don't want to generalize, but believe me, I've seldom met anything among...
...east are Afghanistan, a hair-triggered zone of worry to British India, and Baluchistan, western gateway to British India itself. Whichever warring side gains a foothold in Iran can jump off into any of these vital sectors...
...That, too, died away. Around the tight, smiling lips of one of the singers a tiny rim of white began to show. Among the seated men ran a quick patter of jokes: about limber legs, and that old feeling below the knees, and how lucky they were to be jumping from 1,000 feet instead of 750, which is pretty low for a safe jump, even with parachutes which open very quickly. Most of the squad had made ten or twelve jumps before. They were not afraid to jump, they said; it was the waiting that got you on edge...
Legs akimbo, half lying on their parachute packs, nine Marines lounged on the bare metal floor. The tenth stood before an open hatch in the side of the plane. A little older than the others, he was the sergeant and jump-master; he would be the first through the hatch. Now, while the plane rushed toward the spot chosen for this practice jump near Fredericksburg, his hands were raised above his head, gripping a cable which ran the length of the cabin...
...Scott knows, are defense contracts. So he went to Washington, got a $25,000 order for compass cases from the British Purchasing Commission. Soon he was also making about $1,000 worth of aluminum castings a week for Army Signal Corps and aircraft companies. Last week he completed his jump from basement to big time. To his company went a $1,010,000 British order for oxygen regulators for fighting planes. Scott will get most of the parts from subcontractors, will hire 50 new workers to assemble them in a new $20,000 plant...