Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro vote and might revive the explosive right-to-work issue. But Ohio observers agree that the party's rank and file is strongly for Goldwater and Rhodes may have trouble holding the delegation in line. Similarly, Michigan Republicans are getting restive about Romney's prospects, would jump to Goldwater in an instant if Romney were to release them...
...They head the ball expertly, smash into one another, knock over nets and goal posts in canicidal scoring rushes, spill out of bounds by the yelping dozen, and engulf helpless photographers in their wild, uncontainable scrimmage. A man walking on 8-ft. stilts steps onto a springboard; two men jump onto the other end of the springboard, and the stilt man arcs into the air, 25 ft. up, slowly turning over in a backward somersault, landing perfectly on his stilts...
Touch--this sensuous term simply means out of bounds. The ball must then be thrown in by the side which did not put it in touch. It must be passed in through a "lineout" formation in which the teams line up parallel to each other, and then jump for the ball, trying to kick it to their team-mates...
...Hill Republicans-and as usual, he was completely ignoring the fact that his own Democratic Party has huge majorities of 257 to 176 in the House and of 67 to 33 in the Senate. Indeed, Administration vote counters are wor ried that as many as 40 House Democrats may jump the party ship...
...counting men and women in military service, 13.5% of the nation's workers are government workers. Since 1955, the federal work force has increased 8% , to 2,500,000, but the real jump has been in the number of employees of state and local governments, which has increased 45% , to 7,000,000. If the trend continues, the government at all levels will employ one in every four workers...