Word: leap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble with Theory. At the Rand laboratory in an old carriage house outside Cleveland, the theory was subjected to a great leap forward. Suppose, speculated the Randmen, that cancer antigens (antibody-creating agents) from many types of diseases in many patients could be combined. Couldn't the pooled substance be used to make a vaccine that would work on victims of various forms of cancer? Cancerous cells were thereupon collected from patients all over the country and put through an extraction process. The remaining protein was combined with gamma globulin from rabbit serum in the hope of producing...
...Charlotte Corday (Glenda Jackson), lies weltering in his tub of blood. The director of the asylum and his guests politely applaud the conclusion of the piece; but the inmates, identifying with their roles, run suddenly amuck. Fighting, biting, ripping, raping, they swarm over the guards and the guests, they leap upon the camera and drag the spectator down into the delirium of a revolution that is suddenly no longer there and then but here, now, always...
...Cage record was set and another tied in this final dual meet of the season. Junior Jeff Huvelle's 1:12.4 in the 600 beat the old 1:12.5 mark, and Steve Schoonover's 14' 10" leap in the pole vault tied the record...
...black-and-white parties in Greenwich Village pads. He knows every malodorous inch of the eight-block Harlem area that is the Playboys' turf, and he has earned the nickname "King" by taking over the leadership of the gang from Raven, who had fatally misjudged a leap from one tenement rooftop to another...
Miller tried twice and failed. Coleman's leap had won the meet for the Crimson freshmen, 58 1/2-58, and it had preserved the squad's unblemished record for the year at 7-0, a mark which includes a victory in the Greater Boston Intercollegiate championship...