Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fish in that little pond is Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer, 59. Seems hizzoner promised back in January that the city's new aquarium would be finished by July 4 or he "would jump in the tank." The Fourth came and went-and no completed aquarium. "I'm a man of my word," said Schaefer, and so, toting a rubber duckie and sporting a shoulder-to-knee Victorian bathing suit and a straw boater, the mayor walked the plank and plunked into the seal pool before 300 spectators. Will the aquarium open by Aug. 8, as now promised...
This is the reason the Administration is seeking legislation that would allow judges to deny bail to defendants who seem likely to jump...
...jump in exports apparently results from an increased demand for the products, not from any major efforts to boost foreign sales...
Club membership rose from a handful to 30 or 40 students following Ronald Reagan's conservative landslide. Habib Malik, another graduate advisor to the club, said earlier this sumer. Malik attributed the jump to "disappointment and disgruntlement with the liberal orthodoxy on campus...
...bottom, and only three guys have ever made it up."), they didn't seem to worry too much about competing. Everyone reached the top of this puny hill eventually, although a few fell once or twice. When they reached the lip of the peak, their bikes would jump into the air and they'd land on the back wheel, cackling. Stop for a beer, watch a few others come up, and then go right back down and start over again. "Do you practice this much?" I asked one man, who stood at the top in his cycle club colors. "Practice...