Word: leap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd, destruction, self-immolation. Everything that can be is hurled around: swords, daggers, axes, lances, jars, tools, etc. Some, frenzied, fall upon swords; others leap into the fire, then streak burning across the stage. An orgy of sexual excess. A naked youth darts forward, seizes a girl, rips the clothes from her. Many men do likewise, stripping themselves, stripping women, bearing them...
Charles Njoku cleared 5 ft., 4 in. to take first place in the high jump. Harvey Thomas captured the broad jump with a 22 ft. leap...
Mark Johnson's leap of 22 ft. 6 in. in the broad jump and Terry Golden's time of 0:05.5 in the hurdles were nothing spectacular. But they won. And that is something the jumpers and hurdles have been unable to do all season in the two events...
...firing squad with a camera before it could shoot him with bullets. Flattered and fascinated, the bandits began posing for photographs and drinking straight shots of sotol, a distillation of yucca that makes tequila seem like celery tonic. When they were suitably swacked, Sergeant Miller took a flying leap to the nearest horse and "hit the Rio Grande so hard he knocked it dry for 50 feet." He left his camera behind. No matter. No film in it, anyway...
...percentages were everything, one might say we had made some spectacular advances in out-of-the-way places. In five years circulation in Greenland has nearly doubled-we now have eight subscribers there. And in Red China (pop. about 750 million) we have had our own great leap forward-from 3 to 20 copies, all to officials, and we hope they learn...