Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professional sport, tennis has taken a gigantic leap in popularity. Credit has to go to the great players who are so much more numerous now than in the days of amateurism that we can expect first-class tournaments simultaneously on three continents...
...told, Radcliffe took 11 firsts in the meet. The 'Cliffe won the 440, medley and mile relays. Ann Fletcher won the 200 low hurdle with a time of 37.19 Jane Borthwick took the high jump with a leap of 4 ft. 3 1/2 in. Nicole Bourgols won the 440 in 68.7 seconds, a performance which Radcliffe coach Don Jurivich termed a "superb showing...
...Rouge rockets to ferry in food, fuel and ammunition. Money for the airlift will be exhausted by the end of April unless the U.S. Congress, when it reconvenes April 7, surprises everybody and approves a $222 million supplemental Cambodian aid appropriation. Last week the strategically important town of Tuol Leap, only six miles to the northwest of Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport, fell into rebel hands for the third time since the start of the offensive. That put the airfield within range of the highly accurate U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers that the rebels have captured. Constant shelling...
Government soldiers tried and failed to retake Tuol Leap...
...book has been praised by Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Sociologist (and Socialist) Michael Harrington and other academicians. It has been vigorously denounced by multinational executives, including PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall, who says that the book displays an anti-growth bias that "sounds like a great leap backward to the Dark Ages." Both sides have ammunition: Global Reach is an odd blend of reasoned argument and far-out fantasy...