Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United Auto Workers argues that if quotas are lifted, the Japanese share of the U.S. market will jump from about 22% to 40%. By the union's count, 200,000 American jobs would be lost. Says U.A.W. President Owen Bieber: "Brock apparently wants to punish the workers for the greed of their bosses...
...constantly gathering material or disgorging it into notebooks (she stopped using yellow legal pads when she heard that Richard Nixon does). She jots down passages at odd hours, even between takes on a movie set. Her catch-as-catch-can methodology is reflected in the narratives, which jump somewhat randomly in time and space but have an appealing emotional immediacy. MacLaine's style is chatty...
...laugh either. Harvard ran by both the Big Green and Brown, scoring more points than Dartmouth and the Bruins combined. The Crimson won all but four events. In Hanover, Grace deFries--grabbed first place in the 800 and 1500-meters, and Jacqueline Boudrean took the javelin and high jump to pave...
...breakup of a vaudeville show he had been traveling with, put together a nine-piece combo. Discovered by Jazz Critic and Record Producer John Hammond shortly thereafter, the Basie band went to New York in 1936. The next year the release of the bouncy One O'clock Jump made the Count a celebrity...
Although Basie employed talented arrangers in later years, many of his early hits, including One O'clock Jump and Jumpin 'at the Woodside, began as improvised "head arrangements." "We were fooling around at the Reno Club, and Basie was playing along in F," recalled one of his men. "He hollered at me that he was going to switch to D-flat and for me to 'set something.' I started playing that opening reed riff on alto. Hot Lips Page jumped in with the trumpet part without any trouble, and Dan Minor thought up the trombone part...