Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...examined charts spread out on a table at the Meridien, Mondale's headquarters hotel in San Francisco. Campaign Chairman James Johnson, studying the same figures, said that "tracking" polls showed a rise in the popularity of the ticket every night of the convention, with an especially sharp jump of 10 to 15 points after the nominees' acceptance speeches on Thursday...
...Daddy?" There can be pleasant, tingling waits, of course, full of fantasies, and they are often connected with children: the wait for the child to arrive in the first place, the wait for Christmas, for summer vacation. Children wait more intensely than adults do. Sheer anticipation makes their blood jump in a lovely...
...same period a year ago. The biggest increase was in sales of mid-size cars, like the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, which were up 28%. Large and luxury cars showed a 22% rise. Ford led the industry with a 32.2% sales gain, and General Motors followed with a 26.1% jump. U.S. automakers expect to sell 8 million cars this year, up from 6.8 million in 1983, and earn a record $10 billion in profits...
...like a movie for wimps. Here's this ten-year-old called Bastian, played by Barret Oliver, who's so weak he can't even screw the lid off a Welch's grape-jelly jar. Three bullies from school beat him up and make him jump in a trash bin. A total loser. Then he goes up into the school attic and starts reading this book, and it sort of pulls him into the Land of Fantasia. I mean, he's the one who controls the gate of the people in the book. And they...
From this point on, things get complicated. Giselle meets the ghost of Poet John Berryman, still doing penance for his suicide jump into the Minnesota River. She also bears a demon child who invades the bodies of animals and people in order to kill all suspected enemies of ... Bob Glandier. In his tenth novel, Author Thomas M. Disch, 44, serves up such improbabilities with relish; the result is an entertaining nightmare out of Thomas Berger and Stephen King...