Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general raised his eyebrows. General Weyland explained: a Russian-built, almost new MIG jet had just landed on South Korea's Kimpo airfield near Seoul. As U.N. airmen raced toward the red-starred, silver plane, the MIG pilot-a 25-year-old North Korean in a neat blue jumper suit -methodically tore up a picture of a girl friend, unstrapped his pistol holster, saluted smartly and surrendered...
Rittenburg, who was a Heptagonal hurdle champion, is also a top notch high jumper, broad jumper, and quartermiler. He frequently won two events, and took seconds in others. In the IC4A championships he placed in the hurdles and broad jump...
There are reasons. At their lowest, U.S. wages seem high to the Mexican border jumper. And in recent years, poor men in all corners of Mexico have heard dazzling tales of the wonders and luxuries to be had in los Estados Unidos-canned chicken soup, pink nylon panties to be taken home to wives and girl friends, sweet paste (wonder of wonders) for scrubbing the teeth, and the little brush to squirt it on. Many a wetback, returning to a small Mexican village, has been hailed as a hero, and has been trailed by every able-bodied man in town...
...silent. The Reds released 50 South Koreans first, and they walked stolidly to their reception center. Then a Chinese medical attendant in a white coat, surgical mask and black boots threw open the double doors of an ambulance, and the first Americans appeared. They were wearing blue jackets and jumper pants, blue caps, and they carried blue blankets-specially issued for the occasion. A big sign erected by G.I.s told them where to go: "Welcome gate to freedom...
Track coach Bill McCurdy gets worried when he feels too good. Although he attests to being "versus superstition," McCurdy does admit one ritual he performed faithfully in the days when high jumper Ty Smith was on the team. "Every time he jump, I'd turn away," confessed the track coach. But McCurdy maintains that he hasn't been coaching long enough to develop any real superstitions...