Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expert and highly technical ignorance of track and field was involved. At the Olympics, a track writer is defined as a baseball writer with borrowed binoculars. Mysterious wonders on the order of Bob Beamon's 29-ft. 2 1/2-in. jump 16 years ago in Mexico City are preferable to bland details such as afternoon heats and evening temperatures in the congested regimen of a meticulous man listening to his body. "Looking back," Lewis says, "I think one trouble was just the fact that I had been No. 1 in my events for three years, and there was nothing...
...information. Reading music magazines and the arts section of the paper helps. A couple of subscriptions will run you about $35. Periodically to the various box offices, aren't a bad idea either Say another 20 bucks. Of course, everyone else is doing this too so to get a jump on them, you might want to take out a few misleading ads in the paper. (Sample format "See Bono live at Briggs Cage! Call...") This will run about $100 if you get caught, legal tees might run a bit more...
Although Martin executed some snazzy lay-ups and jump shots. Harvard failed to reestablish the momentum which had carried it in the opening of the second half. Martin pumped in a team-high 24 points, shooting an admirable 12 for 19 from the floor. Her tally set a season record for the most points scored in one game by any individual...
Every week Americans eagerly scratch coins or other objects across the surfaces of some 40 million "instant-win" lottery tickets to find out if they have hit the jackpot. But whether they jump for joy or toss away another losing ticket in disgust, the national love of lotteries has made big winners of two Atlanta-based companies, Scientific Games and Dittler Bros. They are the undisputed champions of instant-win games, one of the most popular forms of legalized gambling...
...military-aid allotment. The White House also wants Congress to nearly double the $9 million for Peru to help it fend off guerrilla insurgents. Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the Philippines, which are host to U.S. bases, get a high priority for military aid; assistance to the Philippines will jump from $45 million to a proposed $100 million to help it fight a growing rebel movement...