Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategy which keeps halfbacks up close to the forward line does, however, place an additional burden on the two fullbacks. A fast breaking team may get the jump on halfbacks playing deeper than usual to bring a four or five man rush down on the fullbacks and goalie. A premium is thus placed on accurate passing and swift control of loose balls by forwards and halfbacks...
...could not be expected to show any great interest in her as a woman, but he could scarcely duck entertaining her. As an officer and a gentleman, he did his best to please by leaping lithely over a tennis net ("How good he is. Crawfie. How high he can jump!" cried Lilibet to her governess), and spicing the conversation on the royal yacht with salty -though not too salty-anecdotes. Elizabeth was entranced, but if Philip remembered anything special about the visit, it concerned the following morning when, back on duty and too' sleepy to hop to at first...
...position as chairman and chief executive. Philadelphia-born President McGovern never got to college, instead took a two-year course in accounting before starting in with U.S. Rubber as an accountant in 1920. Working up the ranks, he was control manager of the tire division by 1933. His big jump came in 1941, when he rapidly organized U.S. Rubber's first venture into the munitions business, bossed a division that turned out World War II explosives, 20-mm. and 40-mm. shells. With President McGovern just three years from mandatory retirement, U.S. Rubber also tapped two leading candidates...
CURRENCY TROUBLE between cash-heavy Germany and cash-shy Britain is growing worse. For September, West German reserves of gold and foreign exchange will show jump of about $600 million to $5.9 billion, more than 25% ahead of last year's total. Sterling area's reserves will show dip of $282 million to $1.85 billion, lowest since...
...protocol-minded, precedence-conscious nation's capital, there appeared the book of the year, the annual Social List of Washington, which ineluctably determines how high or low high-living Washington partygoers will eat at their friends' dinner tables. The most spectacular jump toward the head of the table was made by Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President, who bypassed 48 governors, 96 Senators and two men of Cabinet rank, to land just below the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. House Speaker Sam Rayburn will also eat higher up on the festive board this year, jumping over foreign...