Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Every leap year, modern calendars are expanded to include an extra day. There is a valid astronomical reason for the adjustment: it takes almost six hours more than 365 days for the earth to complete its annual trip around the sun. Thus, to keep the calendar in time with the earth, a 366th day-Feb. 29 -is added every fourth year. Now, as leap year 1972 approaches, scientists are preparing to insert a new and considerably smaller correction into the calendar: the leap second...
...Kleiger, who last year pole vaulted 16 feet as a freshman, took first in the vault with a leap of 14 feet 6 inches. Kleiger is recovering from a knee operation...
Leon Sharpe was another Crimson standout. He took first place in the long jump, hurling himself 22 feet 10 inches; and in the triple jump with a 40 foot 1/4 inch performance. Bill Bihrle's leap of 6 feet 6 inches in the high jump gave him an upset victory...
...believer in extra terrestrial life? "It is simply too arrogant a presumption to say flat out that kind humans are alone in the universe," he says. "Sometimes this kind of mystical belief rings truer than the cleanest scientific logic. That's why I dig Shelley's poetic leap of faith: Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity...
...someone you could always count on, the savior of the helpless and oppressed, society's sword against the forces of evil and injustice. He could, among other things, "hurdle skyscrapers, leap an eighth of a mile, run faster than a streamline train-and nothing less than a bursting shell could penetrate his skin." He was, in short, a good buy for a dime. Even by today's hyped-up standards, Superman was quite...