Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Congress showing increased signs of readiness to swing a big axe at the unions, would prevent these leaders from asking for an increased share of industrial profits. Management, faced with another boost in the cost of labor, would again be tempted to raise prices correspondingly, and another inflationary jump would be under...
...Running broad jump...
Running high jump...
Events planned for Friday include the javelin, 16-pound hammer, 16-pound shot, high jump, broad jump, pole vault, and discus. On Saturday the program will feature the 100, 220, 440, 880, mile, two-mile, 120-yard high hurdles and 220-yard low hurdles. No relays will be run. To make sure everybody has an equal chance, handicaps will be assigned by the coaches...
Allen employs four assistant writers, but he does three-quarters of the show himself. He takes their drafts and rewrites them completely-between the lines. Groused one writer: "The only reason he hired us was because he likes to work on dirty paper." Gripes Allen: "Most writers just jump from cliché to cliché." He himself is so afraid of clichés that he even shies from saying "hello" to friends...