Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, maybe not. For one thing, the Democrats are doing nearly as well. In six months, their party committees have raised $24.2 million--up 130% from four years earlier, a far greater jump than the G.O.P. has made. What's worse, there's the prospect of rain on the whole dollar-driven parade. The black cloud comes in the form of a proposed ban on soft money, among other campaign-finance reforms being promoted by some in the Republicans' own camp, principally Senator John McCain and Representative Christopher Shays. These advocates of reform have long tried to shut the loophole...
...Then a jump cut to a second screen-filling face, this one wearing, barely perceptible right up there at the top of your picture, something shiny on its head. Aha! you think, that could be a batting helmet, and ergo this new face could belong to the player at the plate who, since he's inclining his head over his invisible right shoulder, may be a left-handed hitter...
Just as you're getting the hang of this backing and forthing between two disembodied heads, here comes another jump cut, and a third face looms large on your screen. This one, unlike the other two, looks jowly and weather-beaten and could use a shave. What does this face have to do with the game, if indeed a game is still going on? And then the truth dawns: you are being shown the manager of one of the two teams, sitting presumably in one of the two dugouts. You are, in short, watching the manager watch the field...
...Serbia, the Ministry of Health released a bulletin warning that the eclipse "can induce rapid heartbeat, spasms, itchiness, jump of blood pressure, higher blood sugar and frequent urination"; 26 Jordanians were admitted to hospitals but released when doctors found their eclipse-related illnesses to be "psychological...
...really just the stalling, I think, that landed me in the slow group. I didn't like being a member of the slow group. It brought back bad memories of having a gym teacher yell that skipping is "a jump and a hop." Which, I still argue, it isn't. Either way, it's not what you want to be thinking about when you're going 70 m.p.h. through a hairpin and you're 5 in. from the ground...