Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leap. The trip would avoid many of the difficulties of planetary exploration. Traveling in highly eccentric orbits, some of the miniature planets occasionally pass millions of miles closer to the earth than either Mars or Venus. A spacecraft would have to use only a small amount of fuel to land on an asteroid and blast off again; a twelve-mile-wide asteroid, for example, would exert about one ten-thousandth of the earth's gravitational pull. Even if a ten-ton spacecraft turned over as it touched down, it could be easily righted...
...author in the Students' Quarterly writes, "Unfilled promises and the continuation of negative practices... might spring a second leap. This would most probably destroy 'faith' in the establishment, and would find us very near the ideological outlets of Western leftists...
...Perhaps the Chinese could be persuaded to develop a one-strike capability by jumping off a 50-ft. platform. Surely this would be a gian' leap for mankind...
They send out waves of joy that jolt an audience right out of the glooms and start it stamping floors and pounding fists on chairs. They have no need of costumes or choreography. Soloists leap forward as if by pure impulse. The rest let themselves be caught up by the sound they create, shouting when they like, dancing when the excitement grabs them, hands flying, arms waving to exhort each other...