Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week a C82 lifted from a runway at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., carrying a load of paratroopers for a practice jump. A flock of starlings, startled from the trees, swept across its nose. They were drawn in by the thrashing propellers. The carburetor air intakes of both engines suddenly became choked with dead birds, the engines faltered. Pilot Robert Kilpatrick shouted to a crewman to push the jump bell...
...rear end of the plane, Sergeant Robert Lee Hodgkiss, 24, acting as safety man, heard the bell. The plane had only an altitude of about 400 feet, less than half the normal height for training jumps. But Hodgkiss sensed disaster, yelled: "Stand up, hook up, jump!" There was only time for Hodgkiss to see that all chutes were hooked to the static line. In seven seconds (half the usual minimum time) 36 men went out through the two doors. It was Hodgkiss' turn. He took a look. By this time the shuddering...
Into the Sunshine. Not very happy either about Harry Truman's ways or his chances, Humphrey managed to lead an uninstructed delegation to Philadelphia, able to jump on any bandwagon. When Humphrey and his fellow Northern liberals could draft neither Ike Eisenhower nor Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, they swallowed Truman, and tried to look happy. Then they went to work to get Truman's civil rights program into the Democratic platform. While Southerners howled, Northern liberals brought out a minority report from the platform committee, backing up the President...
This week, network TV made the big jump from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. American Telephone & Telegraph officially opened coaxial cables between Philadelphia and Cleveland. It is now possible for a show to be telecast simultaneously over the area from Boston to Milwaukee to St. Louis and Richmond...
Despite the sore thumb, Chip will start tonight against the Tigers along with the rest of the group that started against Cornell Saturday. Pete Petrillo will be at forward with Johnny Rockwell, Bill Prior will jump enter, and Dick Covey will team with Gannon at the guards...