Word: leaper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duke highlight film from last night was even brighter, topped without question when super-leaper Billy King soared through--or rather, above--the lane to slam home a rebound...
Karen Fitzgerald, UMass' leading rebounder with nine, stands 6-ft., 3-in., while teammate Beth Wilbor, who snagged eight boards, also hovers over six feet tall. Tara Lewis, the other UMass forward and a "great leaper" according to Delaney Smith, managed to grab seven offensive rebounds...
...every leaper, there are scores of San Franciscans who believe they have found the heavenly city. The reasons are unusually plain. There is the rich, Hopperesque sunlight. There is the cooling fog. And the sea breezes skittering up and down the hills. And the abounding good will. If San Francisco insists on delighting in itself, and even showing off - with the All-Star Game this week, the Democrats next and the Super Bowl come winter - 1984 is the year it deserves to be indulged...
...outdoor season, he was back in the form he had exhibited back in England. The talented leaper captured the first of his first four straight Greater Boston Championships, won the outdoor Heps, and finished second at the IC4As...
...days swing onward, galumph, galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snow-less Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper. I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to ... "). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape...