Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election day approached, bright posters of the Communist-Socialist coalition and the new anti-Communist bloc, the Popular Alliance, were plastered on the ancient stone houses. Loudspeakers began to bray through the narrow streets. Shrilled one black-shawled peasant woman: "Why don't they both just jump off a cliff and give us some peace!" The People's Alliance, which had picked for its emblem the country's founder, Saint Marinus (who once bridled and saddled a big brown bear), shouted for its slogan "Vote for Long Beard (San Marino), not for Big Whiskers (Stalin...
...southern Louisiana, Spanish moss hanging from the live oaks stiffened into icicles for the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitants. In Pasadena, the palms were loaded with four inches of white stuff which the residents recognized as snow. San Diego, one jump from the Mexican border, had a little snow too, the first since the earliest weather records (1850). Waco, Tex. had the coldest day (5° below zero) since 1899; Pocatello, Idaho, had the coldest day (31° below) ever recorded...
...Robert Forsyth finished third in the 35-pound weight throw with a 53 feet, 11 1/2 inch toss; and Howard Reed placed fourth with a heave of 51 feet 5 7/8 inches; Donald Trimble finished fifth in the shotput with a throw of 48 feet, 9 inches; David Carter jumped 22 feet, 6 inches to place third in the broad jump; and John Harrigan was tied for fifth place in the high jump with Roger Hillas of Dartmouth. Both cleared 6 feet...
...McCormick (hurdles); Jon Spivak (dash); John Harrigan (high jump); Bill Lawrence and Bud Lockett (pole vault); John Cogan (2-mile); Howie Reed and Bob Forsyth (35-pound weight); Jeff Tootell and Don Trimble (16-pound shot); Dave Carter (broad jump); Harvey Thayer (600); Dick Welch, Al Ruby, George Williams, and Dave Hamblett (two-mile relay...
...pound weight throw, 1:30 p.m. Broad jump, 4:30 p.m. 16-pound shot...