Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal. The Irish partners playing the identical hands at the other table stopped at six hearts. With two biddable suits and rosy game prospects, Goren opened one club to give Sobel a chance to reply at the one level in case she held a weak hand. His second-round jump, displaying a good spade suit and extra high-card strength, committed the partnership to game, so Sobel could afford to say three hearts (rather than jump to four), permitting inexpensive exploration for slam possibilities. Goren signaled that his spades were rebiddable. Sobel's four clubs showed the ace, hinted...
...Lindsay Almond Jr., 66th Governor of Virginia in the line of Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Monroe, John Tyler and Harry Flood Byrd. He had, he admitted, been under "continuous pressure." Just the night before, he and his wife had been awakened several times by telephone calls: "She'd jump up so I could get some sleep, and I jumped up so she could get some rest. Usually, it meant that both of us jumped up at the same time." But for a man ready to preside over the dissolution of the public school system first proposed by Thomas Jefferson...
...Harry Byrd was much too shrewd to jump out front with objections to the Gray Plan. Before it or any harsher program could be put into effect, a change was required in one section of the Virginia constitution that prohibited the "appropriation of public funds" for "any school or institution of learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the state." On the pretext of support for the Gray Plan with its fatal flaw, the Byrd organization fought hard for a constitutional amendment. Leading the way was Attorney General Lindsay Almond, a stem-winding stump orator, who thundered at Appomattox that...
...there were signs aplenty last week that the worst was over. Nonfarm employment jumped 339,000 from July to August. The average factory work week also advanced to 39.4 hours, up more than an hour since April. In past recessions a pickup in the factory week has led to a significant increase in employment. Administration economists expect employment to go up as soon as automakers make peace with their workers (see below) and start to roll out the '59 models. But few expect the jump in jobs to match the fast pickup in production. The recession taught U.S. business...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences likewise expects a "substantial increase" in registration. This year's total of 580 new students will top the 1957-58 number by 75, a jump of 15 per cent...