Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from meat eating), Gandhi was goaded a few years later into sampling goat meat to emulate the British. "Afterwards," he reported, "I passed a very bad night. . . . Every time I dropped off to sleep, it would seem as though a live goat were bleating inside me; and I would jump up full of remorse...
...Junior Davis was more than just a crack football back. In West Point's difficult Master of the Sword test (it includes chin-ups, rope-climb, vertical jump, softball throw) he broke the Academy record with 926½ points. In basketball, Davis was a good forward; in baseball, a talented centerfielder. Wise Branch Rickey has said that Davis was worth $75,000 to any big-league baseball club. Two weeks ago, after finishing a baseball game against Navy, Davis hurried across the campus to help out Army's track team (he broke the 220-yd. Army and meet...
...trade will be small at first. Only 400 businessmen will be admitted into Japan, under allocations to the Allied Nations by the Inter-Allied Trade Board of the Far Eastern Commission in Washington. And SCAP must approve the traders. To make sure that businessmen already in Japan do not jump the gun, no deals can be made until September...
...with "rich streams of ... creative primeval lustiness and health"), fought his passions until he believed he had converted himself from a lecherous, iconoclastic youth into an apostolic, vegetarian writer of Christian tracts ("I am ashamed to speak of my disgusting body," he said). But a rabbit had only to jump up under his feet to make him let out a hunter's bloodthirsty yell. One evening, out of sheer exuberance of animal spirits, the "elderly prophet" sprang onto his father-in-law's shoulders and perched there grinning. "He probably jumped down again at once," says Author Mann...
...prewar consumption of 96.5 Ibs., and sugar men think that present demand is enough to push consumption up to 100 Ibs. if consumers could get all the sugar they want. So even if rationing is maintained until the Oct. 31 deadline, the sugar industry expects retail prices to jump when free trading is restored...