Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel of home and peace was more than this. In the cattle country it was the excitement of rodeo time: the smell of corrals, the sight of a squealing bronco making his first, lurching jump in dusty sunlight. To many an American it was the lovely, casual look of a yellow fly line falling out on running water and the first, heart-stirring tug of a hooked trout. There would be hunting soon and with it would come the cold feel and oily click of a rifle's cocking lever, the look of a deer slung across...
...jump ahead of the Republicans, Majority Leader Alben Barkley rose in the Senate to call for a joint committee of five Senators and five Representatives to search into the "cold, unvarnished, indisputable facts." No favoritism should be shown, he warned. Nor should the investigation be carried out with "the purpose of gratifying the misanthropic hatreds of any person toward any present or past public servant, high or low, living or dead...
When their old press broke down in midrun, Donahue and Bearse talked a Boston printer into finishing the run. On the way to the plant with the page forms, they saw a girl about to jump off a bridge. They grabbed her, took her to a hospital, then went on to the printshop. The following night, after 72 sleepless hours, they got the first issue of the Moderator off to their customers...
...straight to G.E.'s 60 domestic distributors, who will dole them out through dealers to the appliance-hungry U.S. (estimates of first-year sales run as high as $2 billion for the industry). The rest will go to globe-girdling International G.E. salesmen who hope to get the jump on competitors for the South American and South African trade. For the next year, at least, speed is the watchword...
...around enemy-held islands in the Solomons. By late 1943 every downed U.S. carrier pilot, no matter how deep in enemy waters, began to count on an increasing chance of rescue. Pilots who were unable to return to their bases always knew where a crash landing or a parachute jump could be made with some hope. Float planes were used where submarines could not go-as in the Truk lagoon early last year, when seven pilots were taxied out by one plane. In Ormoc Bay last year five PBY Dumbos saved 142 men from a torpedoed destroyer, 56 of them...