Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racing track in Juárez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso. "I never win anything," he confided. "I'm the worst picker of dogs in the world. I couldn't win a race if there was only one dog in it; he'd probably jump the barrier and disappear." It was, of course, Lee Trevino Night at the track. "They had signs up, and mariachis, and everything," said Trevino, who actually cashed five winning $2 tickets and seemed genuinely awed by the attention he was getting. "Jeez," he said, "you win a golf tournament...
What can a man do for kicks after he gets bored with wrestling alligators? Well, he can jump off bridges or jaywalk at Indy on Memorial Day or invite a cannibal in for lunch. Or, as ex-Alligator Wrestler Odell Lewis did, he can turn to powerboat racing...
...claim you're a "headhunter" because you've led the league in hit batsmen five times. And the other night when you blanked the San Francisco Giants 3-0, their manager, Herman Franks, insisted you were throwing a "Vaseline ball"-doctoring it with grease to make it jump around. True...
...national strike was averted only by the Johnson Administration's last-minute intervention. Brought to the White House to bargain, the two sides finally agreed on wage increases amounting to 3.7% a year. Since then, however, Steelworkers have seen those gains largely wiped out by an 8.8% jump in consumer prices. With living costs still climbing, the union is now seeking, as Vice President Joseph P. Molony puts it, "whopping" wage increases...
Like Carter Lord, Jeff Grate was blessed with abundant natural ability. Superbly coordinated and very strong, Grate burst on the Harvard sports scene as a jumping-jack sophomore basketball player. Only 6-1, he could leap with the Ivy centers, had a quick, accurate jump shot and looked like a sure-fire all-time Harvard great. In the spring of that sophomore year, Grate won the starting shortstop position on the varsity baseball team and won the Wendell Bat, awarded the team's most effective offensive player. Then he ran into eligibility problems and just managed to get through...