Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every evening this man held open practices for the local kids, teaching them how to run, jump and throw. Wednesday afternoons he would leave his company at noon, rent a bus, and take the team for "meets" against clubs in other counties...
...presented to the Chinese leader was this: imagine a whole bunch of people standing around the Chinese border. When they see a missile coming in, they all call all their friends, and these people then call all their friends. Then, when everyone in China is ready, they all jump. The world is thrown out of its orbit, and the incoming missiles are lost in space...
Tracee Whitley: You want defense, you got defense. Dive left, jump right, stop the ball. Get the jersey dirty. But for Tracee Whitley, the senior goalie on the Harvard women's soccer team, a dirty jersey means a clean goals-against average. Last year, Whitley finished with a .56 g.a.a., the lowest such average for any goalie at Harvard. She is a two-time All-America...
...longer he testifies before the Judiciary Committee, the more persuasive and reasoned his philosophy of judicial restraint will sound." Armed with an agile mind and a caustic wit, Bork is expected to be a formidable opponent for his critics on the committee. "Any Senator who decides to just jump in and portray Bork as some racist, some evil Neanderthal, is going to be in deep trouble," says Republican Committee Member Alan Simpson of Wyoming. Many hopeful conservatives, remembering the turnabout in public opinion during the Iran-contra hearings, envision Bork as "Ollie North without the medals...
...greeted Gaddafi's latest setbacks with unconcealed glee. "We basically jump for joy every time the Chadians ding the Libyans," said a U.S. official. State Department Spokesman Charles Redman asserted that "Libya has illegally occupied Chad for a number of years" and is believed to have up to 5,000 troops in the country, mostly in the Aozou Strip. The Reagan Administration has provided $33 million in military aid to Chad over the past ten months and last week was considering a new request for antiaircraft Stinger missiles. The White House hopes that Libya's losses in the war will...