Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the 50 broken bones he had already suffered as a motorcycle stunt man, Evel Knievel was back last week, hurtling his way to fame, fortune and another hospital bed. Knievel came to London's Wembley Stadium to attempt a leap over 13 single-decker buses. Twelve might have been better. The spectacular 100-m.p.h. jump, which began with Evel atop the bike, ended 140 feet later with the bike on top of Evel. "I will never jump again," he announced to a crowd of 60,000 after aides had helped him struggle to a microphone. Following a night...
Things are no better in Fairbanks, where a tent manufacturer has delightedly watched sales leap from $45,000 in 1972 to $240,000 last year. At the Fairbanks Rescue Mission, Supervisor Bud Retynski carefully steps over three dozing men as he goes about his work. Says he: "We regularly have 15 or 20 sleeping on the floor...
Literary sea voyages often carry a heavy ballast of allegory. The potential, after all, is readymade; it requires no great leap of imagination to see a ship as a tiny world adrift in eternity. Far Tortuga shuns such metaphysics in favor of hard surfaces. Avers is no Captain Ahab, nor is the Eden a ship of fools. The captain and his crew simply make up an exotic collection of drifters, drunks, petty criminals and indefatigable optimists, worth knowing, this novel implies, for their own sakes...
...stellar effort, Kevin McCafferty tossed the shot 52 ft. 8 in. to win the event. Mel Embree continued in his by now predictable ways by winning the high jump with a leap...
...inflation, manufacturing economics enabled sellers to mark down price tags from an average $118 to about $95, and volume jumped to 650,000 even as the recession deepened. Tom M. Hyltin, president of Micro Display Systems, a subsidiary of the Japanese watchmaker Seiko, estimates that this year sales will leap to 2.2 million, as the price drops to the $50 range. By 1977 the infant industry confidently expects to sell a cool 10 million quartz watches at just $20 each...