Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left, Chan said "Have a good time, whatever you are doing tonight... Jump on those Harvard boys, they need...
...held their breath" in fear of an O-ring failure. Last week Engineer Roger Boisjoly, Thiokol's top expert on the rings, testified that he had sent a similar memo to his superiors only days after Cook sent his. On any one flight, his memo warned, it was "a jump ball" as to whether the seal would hold, and if it did not, "the result would be a catastrophe of the highest order--loss of human life." One month later, yet another Thiokol engineer, Arnold Thompson, urged his company to ask NASA to suspend all flights until the seal problem...
...celebrities such as Jack Lemmon, Woody Allen and Bill Blass. Says Blass: "I love it because it has great food and because it is a bistro. I like to stop at the kitchen window and talk to Andre about what we will eat. I also like not having to jump up and embrace someone every other minute, and I like seeing the mix of plain and fancy people...
...with some hedged language. "Wherever the commission's recommendations point the way to greater executive effectiveness, I will implement them," Reagan stated, "even if they run counter to the will of entrenched bureaucracies and special interests." Allowed one White House aide: "The Packard commission is a train we either jump on or get run over...
...editorial in this week's The New Republic on preventing teen motherhood barely mentions improved sex education and availability of contraceptives. Instead, the editors jump onto the moral regeneration band-wagon, stressing a moral uplift to be led by upper-class Blacks and the church...