Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painting, cows jump over moons, lovers float like lost balloons, roosters and angels hover like Technicolor constellations on the dome of a painterly planetarium. This kind of levitation has been stunning in dozens of paintings and murals but never more suitable than in his new ceiling for the Paris Opéra (see opposite page...
...some future Olympics, other athletes would swim faster, jump higher, throw farther; and some day it might not matter any longer that the U.S. had beaten Russia in their private battle for supremacy in the Games (see box). But the memories would stay -of Bob Schul sprinting across the finish line in the 5,000-meter run, the first American ever to win the race, soaked with rain, plastered with mud, a look of utter rapture on his upturned face. Of Russia's Elvira Ozolina, crushed by her defeat in the women's javelin, rushing wildly into...
...first week, finally got a couple of gold medals in men's track and field. Romuald Klim whirled the hammer 228 ft. 10½ in., and Russia's Valery Brumel beat the U.S.'s John Thomas for the ninth time in ten meetings in the high jump. Both Brumel and Thomas cleared 7 ft. 1¾ in.; the Russian won because he had fewer misses...
...That was a great save, a really great one." Getchell said after the game. "You know, Norris has worked hard, practicing that motion every day. If you jump on your belly the ball can slide under you. Boy, what a save...
...blue helmet, Major Smelley, barked at them, "Move on." They kept going towards the line of registrants. The next thing I saw was Chico Neblett on the ground, troopers all around him. They poked at him with clubs and sticks. I heard him cry out and saw his body jump convulsively again and again: They were jabing him with the cattle prods...