Word: jumped
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Saturday mornings during the fall, nearly 100 soccer players take over the Cambridge Common. Although most of these weekend athletes are no more than four-and-a-half feet tall, they run, jump, kick and shout with an intensity which belies their size. Watched by cheering parental fans, as well as entranced passers-by, and egged on by screaming coaches, the kids of the Cambridge Youth Soccer League combine grown-up determination with youthful nonchalance...
...author does not hide his admiration for the man whose record of 36 years on the high court may stand forever. And there is indeed much to admire. As a child in Yakima, Wash., Douglas had to conquer polio and poverty. He gave up everything dear to him to jump into the Establishment's big East Coast pond, and by age 39 was leading the successful campaign to reform the New York Stock Exchange. He spent half of his life on the Supreme Court championing un popular causes and had so much surplus energy that he became a prolific...
Upstairs in the Parker House penthouse, the measure's opponents grimly greeted their defeat. Some joked they had been given the top floor of the hotel to make it easier to jump...
...they're going up all the time. We've got to stop it somehow." Indeed, Cantabrigians, who got their tax bills during the last two weeks, must have been rudely shocked. The tax rate last year was near $188 per thousand. This year, it hit $230, a large jump, even though Bay State homes are notoriously undervalued. But the rise is an exception to the rule; even counting this year's jump, city taxes have increased far less than the cost of living (and governing) during the past decade. Wheaton's study confirms that the same is true across...
...jump in there and literally grab people left and right and drag them back across the river. The the parties start, and a few days later we figure out who we want and who we don't want...