Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mr.Open Jump Shot, co-captain Tom Mannix, hit 7 of 10 from the floor, most of them from about 20 feet out, to add 17 points to the Harvard total. Flashy sophomore Calvin Dixon, co-captain Mark Harris, and freshman centerforward Monroe Trout (six for seven, all in the second half) also scored in double figures for the Crimson...
...work at the department in Lexington, where she logs two ten-hour days and two 14-hour nights every eight days. She answers both fire and ambulance calls, and sometimes manages to sleep in bunkrooms at the station. ("There really is a brass pole-the bell rings and you jump up and find your shoes, if it's the ambulance, or slide down in socks and get into big boots, if it's the truck...
...basic conclusions jump out of the unhappy experiences of the pollsters. First, most of the private surveyors stopped work too early to pick up the last-minute switches, whether the change was enormous, as most now believe, or whether, in Wirthlin's phrase, "the mountain didn't jump- it slid a little." The reason that most private firms did not survey intensively right up until the last moment is simple: it would have cost too much...
...rescue operation progressed, authorities tried their best to calm those guests still stranded in the hotel, some of whom were leaning out of windows and dangling ropes made from bed sheets. "Don't jump! Don't jump!" policemen yelled through bullhorns. A helicopter swooped around the hotel announcing over a loudspeaker in English and Spanish that the fire was under control. Despite the warnings, at least one woman was killed when she tried to climb down a bedsheet rope from the 19th floor, made it to the 17th, and then fell...
...Lunden, by contrast, is no threat to anybody. "The reason that she's risen is that she's a pretty girl with an empty head who doesn't bother anybody," is the bitter comment of one of the 30% Rushnell removed. "If you told her to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, she'd ask what time she should be there and when the limousine would pick her up afterward...