Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delich Bentley, 56, wife of an antiques dealer, covered the waterfront for 16 years as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. Her salty language and dukes-up style endeared her to dock workers. She once punched a stevedore in a bar when he compared her nose to a ski jump. Her expletives-undeleted report from the tanker Manhattan, during its 1969 voyage through the Northwest Passage, caused her to be banned from using the ship's radio...
With Shulman out, each of the players in the final four singles slots had to move up one position on the ladder. The jump proved to be a little too much, as captain Martha Roberts, Meg Meyer, Debbie Kalish and Abby Meiselman all lost tough matches...
There are the simple, obvious mistakes: "You negate it if you jump offside--if you're offside, it doesn't matter what you do." (In fact, penalties have plagued Restic's Harvard teams since he arrived. The complicated plays and formations tend always to see Harvard receive much more than its share of delay-of-game, offside and, of course, man-in-motion penalties.) There are the less obvious mistakes: "Every time I look at the game films I see the receivers we missed and the plays we could have made." Of course injuries have occasionally crippled Restic teams, most...
...years old and pretty distinguished looking. He wrote me a check for about $60. But it bounced like a rubber ball. So I kept the check in my visor, had about four up there. Then, about six months later, I was waiting outside the Kennedy School and who should jump in my cab but this guy. So I took the check and turned around and said, 'Hello Joseph, how you doing?' He looked at me, and I said, 'What's wrong, don't you remember me? Don't you remember this check?' He put on his glasses and looked...
Crossing the Charles at Anderson Bridge, Arthur reaches across and taps the top of his fare meter. The display light is burned out. "That's an old meter--they call them one armed bandits. I've seen them jump two bucks at a time. I think there's a loose wire in there somewheres." But it's his cab, not his meter, that's been jumping tonight. As he pulls into Harvard Square, Arthur is flagged down again, this time by a large, distracted man, who looks extremely angry. "How much to Lake Street? How soon...