Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that might last a generation and in the end mean peace or war . . . However, if this Army is to prevent war, it must be made part of a stable long-range military policy-a policy as prolonged as the period of tension ... If we are to hop, skip and jump every time a paper is rustled east of the Elbe, we shall place ourselves supinely and helplessly at [the Russians'] feet while they call the tune...
...spectacular rises in population have come with industrialization. The "laws" which govern it are not yet well understood, but the early stages of industrialization, in any country, seem to be associated with a moderate rise in the birth rate, a sharp fall in the death rate and a consequent jump in population...
...tropical red soils (one billion acres). If the podsols were cultivated by methods now used in Finland, and the tropical soils by methods used in the Philippines (neither of them tops in farming techniques), their production, added to that of present croplands efficiently cultivated, would jump the world's total food to more than twice the 1960 target...
...month-long celebration of Komsomol accomplishments in which praise and exhortation were about equally mixed. Aram Khachaturian's young son Karen, a fledgling composer himself, published a cantata, Youth! Live Long and Blossom! Celebrating in their own way, members of the Chkalov Air Club made a record parachute jump without oxygen equipment, from 21,325 feet...
...After months of entreaty, a 76-year-old Fosston, Minn, farmer named Walter Morgan got a pilot to take him aloft for a parachute jump. He leaped out of the plane at 1,800 feet, gave 2,000 spectators near heart failure by letting himself fall free until he was halfway to the ground. Then he yanked his rip cord, landed calmly in a field, said: "That's what an old man can do when he lets liquor alone...