Word: daredevils
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Affable Art Tokle has no business even trying a ski jump, let alone winning meets. At 38, Tokle is an old, old man in the young daredevil's sport of taking a flying leap off a mountainside. Yet he is one of the most consistently successful of all U.S. jumpers, has won 17 of his last 19 meets at Bear Mountain, N.Y. Explains Tokle, "I improve with...
...streets outside, bullets whined overhead and sprayed against trees and buildings. But a crowd of curious Saigonese nevertheless sauntered up to watch. An old woman riding by in a taxi was hit and killed; her body was dumped near the palace wall. To cheers from the crowd, daredevil youngsters ran out to drag wounded rebel soldiers back to safety...
Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. In a too-worshipful biography, the reader meets the aristocrat, daredevil pilot and eloquent writer who was probably the century's first true poet...
...Bading herself, a slight (95 lbs., 4 ft. 11 in.) woman, was sick from lack of oxygen. Before Crews finished radioing his report, one of the greatest rescue operations of Alaskan history was under way. For four grueling days, mountain climbers struggled toward the peak, and daredevil airmen dropped supplies and ferried rescuers, winged among deadly granite walls...
...Flight is also a study in opposites. The young daredevil, or perhaps the your Leonardo, poises on the verge of trying his wings from a cliff top overlooking Pittsburgh's Bigelow Boulevard. He defies authority and rigid conservatism (which say it cannot be done), represented in only two dimensions by the safety poster. His mother, hanging out the clothes, doubtless regards her headstrong son with mixed emotions...