Word: leap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast is not yet an ensemble and many of the actors are slow on the pick-up. At times the pace is agonizing, for these are lines that must leap at one another like sparks...
...rangy (6 ft. 4 in.) frame still seem persuasive enough to get his football scholarship to Southern Cal renewed. He still looks born to the saddle; in The War Wagon, he mounted his horse with his own steam, while Co-Star Kirk Douglas, ten years younger, had to leap aboard his mount with the help of an unseen trampoline. The only perceptible indications of Wayne's years are a bit more heft around the middle and the hairpiece he wears on the set to mask a thinning pate...
...firemen threaded through the narrow old streets within ten minutes of the first alarm, but helplessly watched many people jump or burn to death before they could raise their ladders or spread their nets. "One man was transformed into a living torch before my eyes as he hesitated to leap from a high window," said Fireman Jacques Mesmans. Others, luckier, landed atop parked cars and escaped with bruises and broken bones. Amid the panic, the flames climbed to the roof, where bottles of butane gas for sale to campers sealed the building's fate with a staccato of explosions...
...could feel that its hopes, for a few excruciating and exhilarating hours, lay in the hands of one young man. And when Charles Lindbergh landed the Spirit of St. Louis on Paris' Le Bourget field, people everywhere-groundlings with a sudden vision of a boundless future-experienced a leap of the heart...
...creating a new city of a size hitherto only dreamed of: 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 population. It would sprout in 50,000-people installments on a still-secret site in the countryside "where the air is still as God made it." Only by this kind of leap beyond the suburbs, Levitt persuasively argues, can the urbanizing U.S. remain fit to live in as it doubles its present physical plant over the next 35 years. To solve the job problem, he has been dickering with the heads of several major corporations that could put factories in his city...