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Brooklyn, 1945. The Pollacks are bone-poor. They lead lives of congealed desperation, though their dialogue sometimes glints with the leapfrog logic of Allen's idiosyncratic humor...
...calls a "smorgasbord of educationally accelerated opportunities." Some, who live near by, are ferried by their parents to special two-hour Saturday tutorial classes at Johns Hopkins. Tutored by other prodigies just a few years older than they, these gifted students now race through advanced algebra and geometry. Others leapfrog over grades, and some will attend a special summer session at Johns Hopkins...
...blocked, but he took one final look at the X rays and compared them with what he saw in front of him. Then he proceeded. Taking one piece of vein from the leg, he grafted it to three points on the heart's surface, thus making sequential or "leapfrog" bypasses around two blocked sections of the arteries in a single maneuver. With another piece of the same vein, he made a third bypass...
...sister aircraft that had so disastrously converged in the distant Canary Islands fell victim to split seconds of bad luck. There was every evidence that KLM Pilot Veldhuizen had heroically pulled the nose of his huge craft abruptly into the air to leapfrog over the Clipper. Pilot Grubbs was also violently yanking his ship to the left to get out of the way. Experts estimate that the KLM plane needed only 25 ft. of added altitude to avoid the collision, saving the Pan Am passengers. Whether Veldhuizen could have controlled his plane to avoid crashing is questionable. "He probably knew...
Montgomery's game plan was sort of quantum leapfrog. On Sept. 17, 1944, a Sunday, the afternoon skies over Holland were filled with 5,000 planes and 2,500 gliders. Executing phase one of Operation Market-Garden, an airborne Allied army of 35,000, complete with vehicles and artillery, dropped onto Dutch countryside still occupied by Germans...