Word: leapfrogged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's top aviation engineers. He started late in jets, because Pratt & Whitney, United's engine-manufacturing division, had to concentrate exclusively on the production of conventional piston engines during World War II. When United finally got going in 1946, Hobbs decided to leapfrog the competition by mapping out an engine far more powerful than anything on any other firm's drawing boards...
...Halloween party, he sent word that he had been hurt in an auto accident. Then he tottered in, in Mercurochrome-splashed bandages. On another occasion, calling on a Digest editor to meet his new bride, Wallace broke the ice by starting a game of leapfrog with her on the lawn...
...dive bombing and fighter gunnery). During World War II, as skipper of the aircraft carrier Wasp, he won a Navy Cross for his handling of the ship when she was torpedoed off Guadalcanal. Later, as Admiral Chester Nimitz' chief planner, he devised the Navy's brilliant leapfrog tactics in the fight across the Pacific...
...sides. Then a British brigade and a regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division arrived, and helped them seal off the penetration. The Chinese managed to cut the Seoul-Chunchon highway, but after that they "ran out of steam." They had vast reinforcements moving up, but apparently they needed to leapfrog them through the units that had already been mauled, and that took time...