Word: jump
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Customs do change. Babylonian law decreed drowning as the proper punishment for a woman accused of adultery, but if she floated after being forced to jump into a sacred river, she was judged innocent. In the Middle Ages, someone who had sexual relations with a Jew could be punished by burial alive; adulterers were flogged through the streets, prostitutes had their noses slit, and men were burned alive for having sex with dogs, goats, cows, even geese...
...memory. To the amazement of all, the Sox in a mid-June visit to Yankee Stadium, usually a favored site for the yearly crack-up, swept three games and in Baltimore mugged the surging Orioles three in a row. Said Oriole Manager Earl Weaver: "I'm going to jump in the pool and hope I don't come up," perhaps the first time that Weaver has ever threatened suicide before the All-Star break...
...abducted by the evil rodent genius Professor Ratigan. The movie's scene-stealer is a peg-legged bat named Fidget, who gets laughs when someone stomps on his foot ("My only foot!"). Later Basil and Dawson are trussed up on Ratigan's killer mousetrap, a Rube Spielberg device that jump-starts the filmmakers' ingenuity and accelerates the plot toward its nifty climax. Nothing as weighty as the art of animation is at stake here--just some clever cartoonists having a holiday on mice...
...miracle makes him a presidential prospect. To the Democrats, desperate for new faces, the emergence of a 42-year-old Rhodes scholar and sports idol who can claim to be the father of tax reform may be an act of political deliverance. Bradley seems in no great hurry to jump into the presidential race, but he is nonetheless quietly preparing himself for this last and greatest competition --if not in 1988, then in 1992. "Bill has always had a sense of where he wants to go," says his old Princeton roommate Coleman Hicks, now a Washington lawyer...
...family. "Bias had a natural ability that would have made him a consummate Celtic . . . The picture of health, the perfect athlete, 6 ft. 8 in. in his stocking feet . . . The best college player in America . . . One of the most happy people you'd ever want to see . . . He could jump through the roof." Like picks 1 through 17 in last week's draft, Bias was black. It is such a specious dream, to become a professional star and achieve unlimited wealth ("I'd like to buy a Mercedes," Bias declared first off in Boston). The thought of a young...