Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room, ocean-front San Juan Intercontinental. In Jamaica the Arawak's record for size will stand only until next year, when the 200-room Marrakech will open on the north shore. Chief Minister Norman Manley foresees that tourism, now earning Jamaica around $25 million a year, will jump to 500,000 visitors and $100 million in revenue...
...Repetto played his best game of the year for the varsity, connecting on ten of 18 field goal attempts, and tallying a total of 22 points on push and jump shots from around the keyhole. Repetto's performance was especially impressive since he played only half of the second period...
Monk Muncaster scored on a tap-in at the 50-second mark of the first half, and the varsity never was challenged thereafter. George Harrington hit on a long set, Repetto lofted a 20-foot one-hander, and two minutes passed before Bill Colby scored on a corner jump shot to start the Husky scoring...
...Administration's decision to arm our NATO allies with IRBMissiles seems another hasty jump out of the frying pan into the fire. England and France have demonstrated in the Suez affair how sorely our allies may be tempted to take impulsive, independent action. Our eagerness to bolster the pride and might of our allies should not cause us to forget that the first atomic-armed missile fired by any NATO finger will shoot the U.S. into an all-out nuclear...
...predatory female who invites him skindiving. "You do snorkel?" she asked. "Oh, fluently," replied Lahr with outrageous, beady-eyed insouciance, and in a trice he has filled out a preposterous, knee-length bathing suit. With a meddling, mixed-metaphored assist from Comedienne Doro Merande ("Don't jump the gun half-cooked"), Lahr got away with bushels of bad jokes ("I was married, but now I'm estranged." "I'm a stranger here myself"), some broad-farce ribbing of stockbrokers ("I don't want to sell-might make the market nervous"), and a tycoon's diet...