Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no doubt in Kansas City as to who runs the town. It's big Roy Roberts, mighty, cigar-chewing mogul who sits complacently on his throne at 18th and Grand, and pulls the strings that make his puppets in public office jump to do his bidding...
Agnes de Mille had made a flying leap from ballet to Broadway-and Broadway had cheered her dances in Oklahoma!, Carousel and Brigadoon. But could she as gracefully jump back? Last week, in the Metropolitan Opera House, a Ballet Theatre audience was cheering her Rail River Legend, too. The critics joined...
...steeplechase water jump that produces five minutes of frustration-comedy as screamingly funny as a good Chaplin sequence. Horse after horse plops its resplendent rider into the drink, then surfaces with a burst of triumphant horse-laughter...
Three men, named Kleist, Kimball, and Newman, could easily take the 100, 220, 120 highs, 220 lows, high jump, and broad jump among them today. Newman won the indoor Heptagonal sprint this winter, and Kleist has been hitting 23-plus and 6-3 in the broad jump and high jump...
...Broad jump--Won by Kumple (H); 2, Maze (BU); 3, Carter (H); 4, Thayer (H). Distance: 22 feet, 5 3/4 inches...