Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Long Jump--1. Wendall Bohnomme, Northeastern, 21-ft., 3 1/4-in...
...HARD not to jump to conclusions about why the council would decide to employ a former leader looking for a part-time job in Cambridge or why such a secretary would end up with a princely wage. I asked the student government's leaders anyway...
Despite the shortage of high finishes, there were a number of strong individual performances for the Crimson. Sophomore Chris Sullivan placed third in the high jump with a personal best 6-ft., 10 1/2-in, while senior Stephen Pinney snared fourth in the pole vault with a height of 14-ft., 8-in., and junior Don LaVigne's time of 54.38 in the 400-meter hurdles earned him a seventh-place finish...
...jump began as a routine skydiving exercise, part of a convention of 420 parachutists sponsored by Skydive Arizona, but it quickly turned into a test of nerve, instinct and courage, carried out within seconds. Moments after he went out the open hatch of a four-engine DC-4 airplane at 9,000 ft. near Coolidge, Ariz., Sky Diver Gregory Robertson, 35, could see that Debbie Williams, 31, a fellow parachutist with a modest 50 jumps to her credit, was in big trouble. Instead of "floating" in the proper stretched-out position parallel to the earth, Williams was tumbling like...
...This is a clear message that sociologists, statisticians, demographers and pollsters have no place in criminal courtrooms," cheered Daniel Popeo, general counsel of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation. Critics unhappily agreed. "Jurors are going to have to jump up and admit they are racists," complained Joe Ingle, director of the Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons...