Word: leap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting only the equivalent of $20 a kilo (2.2 lbs.). The same kilo, when it reaches the Laotian capital of Vientiane, will be worth $60; at Saigon in South Viet Nam it will bring $1,000, and when it is safely put ashore in San Francisco, the value may leap to $2,000 or more...
...Even then Garry was such an accomplished gagman that a fan named F. Scott Fitzgerald came backstage and solicited his collaboration on a revue. "I was flunking high school anyway," says Moore, "so I had nothing to lose. I saw a chance to jump 16 steps in one leap...
...Essentially, this is the shot a short man might take to overcome the height of his opponent, has the serious disadvantage of moving Chamberlain away from the rebound. Now Chamberlain is beginning to exploit his size and strength by bulling straight for the hoop, overpowering his man with a leap so high that he merely lets the ball roll off his palm for a sure basket...
...vaudeville comedian, after Appomattox or after Yorktown, who first used the joke during a desperate split week in Manchester or Dublin. The joke involved someone's trying to rent a cottage with a W.C. (water closet) and being misunderstood by someone else who thought that by some tortured leap of the jokemaker's imagination the letters stood for Wayside Chapel. Thus, the W.C. was nine miles from the house, could be visited only twice a week, etc. - endless possibilities. Little could the unsung, unremembered hero foresee that his creation would one day produce a major crisis...
...Glit") Shields Jr., whose celebrated sailor father suffered a heart attack while frostbiting at the age of 61 four years ago. Fact is, sailing a dinghy is probably even trickier than sailing a twelve-meter, and a greater test of individual skill. Instead of eleven trained men ready to leap to his command, the skipper has only himself and perhaps one small shivering boy as crew. The slightest shift of weight or twitch of the tiller can make the difference between victory and defeat...