Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Record. The son of a sometime professional fighter. Jimmy attended Manhasset High School on Long Island, averaged 14.9 yards a try as a senior halfback, 38 points a game for the basketball team, set a school high-jump record (6 ft. 3 in.), pitched and played first base for the baseball team. After sifting 45 scholarship offers, he chose Syracuse, majored in sociology, put on a spectacular one-man show in the 1957 Cotton Bowl by scoring three touchdowns, booting three conversions against Texas Christian in a 28-27 losing cause...
...Colonel. Danny Kaye's warmest and one of his funniest, about a gentle, ingenious refugee escaping one jump ahead (and occasionally one jump behind) the Nazi invasion of France...
...Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg, West Germany's fine jumping team was having things its own way last week. With only two competitors still to jump in the fault and out event, Germany's Olympic Champion Hans Winkler, 32, had cleared the ten jumps faultlessly in 38.6 seconds. Then a slim young Mexican girl galloped to the starting line, her dark hair bobbing out from under her black riding cap in a pert ponytail. Vicki Mariles swept her horse over the rail jump, safely navigated the spread jump, and swept past the finish line in an amazing...
...trouble is he don't turn the corners too well. Vicki, she turns those corners very well. She knows that is how you save time, but she still has to learn one important thing. You see, when a horse is racing fast, he flattens out across the jump. When he comes down, you have to encourage him a little-go 'Hah! Hah! Hah!' in his ear to help him go over the next jump. She don't do that...
...choice is harrowing. In the dream, Bing hems and haws, but a decision must be made. The three divas' pet dogs advance on him. Zinka's spitz, Nickie, growls; Maria's poodle, Toy, nips at his ankles; and Renata's poodle, New, crouches to jump. "Choose, choose, choose!" sing the divas, to some nightmare melody that sounds like Alban Berg played backwards...