Word: jump
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Captain Geoff Stiles continued his superb season with a pole vault win and a second-place high jump finish. In January, Stiles set a new NEAAU record with a 16 ft. 6 3/4 in. vault...
...number of foreign students in the U.S. has risen sharply. Last year there were 235,000 foreigners (many of them graduate students) on college and university campuses, a 15% jump over the previous year; there are even more in the U.S. today. By far the largest foreign contingent is the 36,000 or so students from Iran; other big groups come from Taiwan, Nigeria, Canada, Hong Kong, India and Japan. Soon students from China will add to the numbers...
...slows down suddenly, as if sinking into his own momentum. For sheer bravura, the high light is a series of leaps that resemble a broad jumper's hitch kick. He kicks into the air with the left leg, brings the right even higher, executing in effect a double jump suspended in air. Robbins, who worked out this unprecedented move with Baryshnikov, calls it a temps de flèche. To Ballet Master John Taras it is a grand pas de basque. Baryshnikov describes it as a jeté pass...
...When Gerry Cheevers jumped to the WHA, which team did he jump...
...HIGH JUMP--1. Young (H) 6-6 (wins on fewer misses); 2. Stiles (H) 6-6; 3. Hardie...