Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plicants from Northern California and a similar jump in those from the South and Sothwest...
...film's contribution to jazz mythology will be modest. Eddie Durham tells of how Basie's "One O'Clock Jump" was renamed when radio censors vetoed the original title, "Blue Balls." McShann provides yet another anecdote about how Parker came to be called Yardbird. Ricker's 24 hours of rough footage doubtless contained many more interesting stories, but as a movie, not an oral history project, the film's wonderful sense of pace easily offsets an occasional choppiness in cutting from one bull session to another...
Besides their size, the Cubans could all jump. For long stretches they waged sort of aerial battle of Havana about a foot above the rim. Morales and amigos proved particularly adept at flying in from nowhere to dunk, then quickly ducking their heads so they would avoid hitting the backboard...
...long jump and triple jump will be our great field strengths" predicts Stowell, and with freshmen long jumpers Gus Udo and Jim Johnson consistently hitting over 23 feet his prediction looks sound. The tracksters have four triple jumpers who can best the imposing figure 47 feet...
...first giant leaps toward ending revenue sharing with the states. After all, Congressmen have to be reelected or they'd be out of a job. Think how much easier it is to win votes if federal taxes haven't increased. And since the defense budget is going to jump 22 per cent next year, the money is going to have to come from somewhere...