Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration opinion tended to favor the sort of loan Britain needed. But Britain's famed economist, Lord Keynes, and his fellow negotiators had many a hurdle to jump. One danger was that the British would antagonize U.S. public and Congressional opinion, as they had in the war-debts discussions of the 19203, by overselling a basically sound case...
With some wonderment in its tone, Canadian Military Headquarters in London said that in the field of absence-with-out-leave Adrien Demers was probably "standing broad-jump champion" of the Canadian or any other army. In Bordon, Hampshire, last week, the stubby, 35-year-old lance corporal from South Granby, Quebec, blandly pleaded guilty to being AWOL for "1,692 days, twelve hours, 20 minutes...
...pony run, he jump, he pitch...
...September, they arrived in Yokohama, where a Jap officer struck Zamperini's nose with a flashlight because, when they were transporting him in a sedan, he could not get his long legs under a jump seat...
...over half the U.S. population belonging to one church or another, the Federal Council of Churches in its 1945 Yearbook of American Churches tallied the reports of 256 Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and other religious bodies, found that their membership had reached the alltime high of 72,492,669 - a jump of four million in two years...