Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides the old and inherently restricted Disabled American Veterans, the Legion's biggest competitor was another oldtimer - the Veterans of Foreign Wars, headed by Joseph M. Stack. V.F.W. had got the jump on everybody by recruiting over seas, now had 1,250,000 members (one million of them brand new) and two mil lion dollars in the bank. But it still wanted only men with foreign service, and it took no women. Its biggest attraction was an extravagant bonus plan to be pushed in Congress: $3 for each veteran's day of home service; $4 for each overseas...
...years of association with Jim during this war, I found him to be one of those rare people who would jump in, without hesitation and without argument as to the possible effects on his own personal prestige, and do a job that needed to be done in any remote part of the earth where the going was toughest and the situation most complicated...
...beef-trust legs dance on eggshells. He has a 14-game average of 6.6 yards for every time he has carried the ball. He does Army's kicking, blocks and tackles with a killer-diller effectiveness that approaches perfection. Every pro team in the U.S. would jump to make room for Blanchard...
...Point's potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel bar dips, softball throw, sit-ups-he scored an all-time high of 926 points out of 1,000 (cadet average...
...toothpaste? By diluting it in water and gulping it down? By decapping the tube and swallowing it whole and having somebody jump on your tummy? Or do you just brush your teeth continually without spitting...