Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm below and burst into flames, killing twelve passengers and a crew of three-the first casualties on a scheduled U.S. airline since August 1948. The damaged fighter plane crashed seconds later. A farmhand saw its pilot-26-year-old Lieut, (j.g.) Robert Poe of Fairfax, Va.-jump out just before it hit, fall like a flipped stone, and die in a field with his chute unopened...
...Rodriguez was accused of operating a brinco (literally, a jump), one of a series of fashionable private houses where, in rotation, gambling is carried on almost every night. Brincos are the most elegant manifestations of a long-standing conflict between Mexicans' desire to bet on whatever they please and the government's efforts to funnel gambling money into taxable channels...
...laboratory fees for medical research in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950. Under the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Institutes of Health hold the strings on the fattest purse, over $46 million, up 25% over last year. Funds for work on heart disease show the biggest jump, from less than...
...airlines fulfilled their predicted jump into the black (TIME, July 18). Eastern Air Lines' $2.1 million net was up 63%, Northwest Airlines' $430,915 profit helped offset a $2,016,000 deficit in 1948's first half...
...eyes of Tulare upon him (plus the extra pressure of knowing he had to win after all the fuss on his account), 18-year-old Bob Mathias at first lagged in points in the stiffest test of all-around skill known to sport-discus, javelin-throw, shotput, high jump, broad jump, pole vault, high hurdles and flat races of 100, 400, and 1,500 meters. He didn't let it ruffle him. When he was not actually competing, rangy (6 ft. 3 in.) Bob relaxed on a blanket, now and then waved to his mother up in the stands...