Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creating her life)' the audience demands it as part of the romantic spectacle. Since it might cause her death, Lola's dive is also a potential act of suicide and escape, the most desperate of all romantic acts. At the same time the ringmaster is forcing her to jump. As he counts to three, the frame tilts around her one way and then the other; she gasps, closes her eyes, and finally bends into the frame toward the camera. Ophuls cuts to a shot that rushes straight down into the net, simulatneously fading out into blackness. Although...
...wrenched back and finished eleventh. During the finals in Mexico, he was twice thrown off balance, pole in hand, by a mad flourish of trumpets heralding an awards ceremony. On his second try he cleared what was ultimately the winning height of 17ft. 8½ in., but the jump was nullified because his pole passed under the bar. That pointless rule had already been repealed-effective May 1, 1969; Pennel finished fifth. Nearing 29, he realizes that he will be too old to take a shot at the 1972 games-but he has one more important bar to cross...
...most of it." Last year Decio's Skyline sold about 30,000 mobile homes and 12,000 travel trailers, more than any other U.S. firm. For the company's fiscal year, which ended May 31, it earned almost $9,000,000 on sales of $180 million, a jump of 67% in sales and 98% in earnings over the previous year. The company's stock has quintupled in price since the beginning of 1968, and Decio has recently announced a 3-for-l split...
...fishermen to "harvest" them, thereby tapping a rich new source of protein. Similar tactics might be used to satisfy less adventuresome tastes in seafood. "If we can make this little damselfish twist and turn around in the open sea," says Myrberg, "maybe some day we can make a snapper jump into...
...broad jump, Harvard's Skip Hare qualified for the NCAA championships this summer by jumping 24 ft. 3 in., good for a second place finish in the meet. Both he and teammate Bob Galliers had passed the 24-foot barrier earlier in the spring, but Galliers failed to place in the event this weekend...