Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Longer range plans for Student Government elections went on the books yesterday when the Council set the date for the all-college polling in the first week of March--a two or three week jump on balloting of previous years. The elections have been moved back in order to allow Senior Student Government officers a wide margin for handing in theses and studying for finals...
During his stay in Antarctica on the "Operation High Jump," Foster shot over 20,000 feet for the movie. The show's cast consists for the 4,000 men from the U.S. Navy who sailed with Byrd. Robert Taylor, Robert Montgomery, and Van Heflin speak the commentary...
Jessup continued: "The Soviet Government has revealed the weakness of its position by adopting what I may refer to as grasshopper tactics . . . Each leap ends on a blade of grass which turns out to be a flimsy pretext requiring a jump to a new but equally unstable position . . . The long process of proposal and counterproposal, of promises made and withdrawn, made it plain that good faith-that prerequisite to settlement-was absent from the Soviet mind...
...very absence of color, the refusal to jump to conclusions, and the blunt, graceless prose, have the persuasiveness of a courtroom exhibit. What Freeman once said of Robert E. Lee holds good for his approach to George Washington: "I know where Lee was and what he did every minute of the Civil War, but I wouldn't dare presume what he was thinking...
...look at a ball heading his way, turn, and without a backward look glide to the spot where the ball is coming down, swing around casually and let the ball fall into his glove. Like all champions, he makes it look too easy. "It's just getting the jump on the ball...