Word: leap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...element. He pioneered easy-payment plans, became Japan's biggest advertiser (his ad budget last year: $18 million), flooded his dealers with sales aids. His domain swelled to 89 plants, employing 49,000 workers. From $17 million in 1951, Matsushita's sales made an astounding leap to $486 million last year, and in five more years he expects them to pass the billion dollar mark...
OuHhinking the Bar. So far this season, Uelses' timing has been flawless. "It was a dream vault," recalls the University of Maryland's vaulting coach, George Butler, who watched Uelses smash Bragg's record in Washington. "The only perfect leap I ever saw. I'm sure he would have made it if the bar was at 16 ft. 4 in.-with a metal pole or any other kind." Rangy (6 ft. 1 in., 172 Ibs.) and well-knit, Uelses runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.7 sec., needs only an abbreviated, 104-ft. approach (standard...
...leader of the conservative faction of the Chinese politburo. While on a trip to Albania in May 1959, he secretly told Nikita Khrushchev of his strong opposition to Mao's agricultural commune system. With Khrushchev's encouragement, Peng returned to China and denounced Mao's Great Leap Forward as "petty bourgeois fanaticism." At a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee in August 1959, Peng said that the communes had been set up without adequate preparation, scored the blunders of the system, criticized the use of soldiers for farm labor, and denounced the party...
...obliged to look harder at the issues that divide Christians. "For the bone that sticks in the Protestant throat," he said, "is Scripture v. dogma, the original message of salvation from the mouth of God and the promulgation of infallible propositions. It is this passage, this seemingly lyric leap from Scripture to dogma, and from dogma to dogma, that scandalizes the Protestant theologian...
...embarrass the prissy Richwick with her uninhibited advances (in a satirical switch, Vercors has Richwick study Freud in order to give Sylva some inhibitions). But the major gap that separates human from animal mentality is man's conscious awareness of his own existence. Eventually, Sylva makes the leap, and from the frightening moment when she discovers herself as an individual entity separate from her environment, Sylva cannot turn back; she is, as it were, hooked by humanity...