Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rene Fonck, 50, World War I French Ace of Aces (75 German planes) and World War II Vichy collaborationist, tried out a new role. R.A.F. Sergeant George Cole, back from a parachute landing in Belgium, told the story. Knocked unconscious by his jump, Cole awoke in a monastery where he was silently waited on for three days by monks sworn to perpetual silence. Finally he was driven back to his base by a non-silent, keenly airminded monk who began questioning him closely about the air war. Flyer Cole said that his robed driver was ex-Flyer Fonck...
...Ellis, F. S. Steinbaner; 880-H. O. de Fries, W. S. Ellis, P. G. Robbins; mile-W. F. Keller, P. G. Robbins; 2-mile-R. D. Maccabe, V. C. Moriarty; low-hurdles-J. C. Hunter, M. C. Jenkins; high-hurdles-J. C. Hunter, M. C. Jenkins; high-jump-R. W. Haward, M. C. Jenkins, W. A. Withington; shotput-P. N. Sawyer; discus-P. N. Sawyer; javelin-R. W. Madsen, M. C. Ritchie, R. L. Rochelle; pole-vault-P. G. Harwood...
...paratrooper at Fort Benning said to Bernstein, "I wish to hell there was some other way of getting up here." "Don't you like to jump?" Bernstein asked. "I love to jump. I just don't like these damned airplanes." "I'm disappointed," said another after his third jump. "You just come up and fall out. You don't have to do a thing. A roller coaster is worse...
...newly elected co-captain led the individual scorers by nailing three first places for 15 points. Pete Robbins, the other captain, and Bob Clark followed with ten points each to give the trio 7 of the 11 events. With Jenkins taking the 120 and 220 yard hurdles and high jump. Robbins the half mile and mile, and Clark the 100 and 200 yard dashes, only the discus, javelin, and vault were left to be won by Phil Swayer, Dave Matson, and Pete Harwood...
...candidate of a large group of stockholders who disapprove of Avery's unbending defiance of the National War Labor Board, and were out in proxy-collecting force for Sewell Avery's scalp. But in the final showdown Sewell Avery won handsomely. Dazzled by a 60% jump in profits before taxes for the first quarter of this year ($12.6 million v. 1944-3 $7.9 million), some of the rebellious stockholders thoughtfully laid aside their tomahawks. Final score: Rebel Patton: 1.8 million votes; Sewell Avery's slate of directors: 3.7 million...