Word: leapfrogged
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...commercial reactors were built over the years, all Asia would "leapfrog the conventional fuel systems" and hurry on to higher living standards with atomic reactors that would also "propel . . . Africa, Free Europe and Latin America into the 21st century . . . Dollars per se are no longer power . . . If we do not use industrial atomic energy to ... create vast new world markets for our products . . . we shall have doomed ourselves to an inferior competitive position, second to the Soviet Union...
...regiments came in leapfrog from four directions, battalion by battalion. They had rehearsed their attack for days against replicas of the French strongpoints. Each Red packed unusual firepower: belts of high-explosive containers, a submachine gun, a dozen grenades, a rifle or pistol, and a long-bladed knife. This time there was no screaming. After midnight the Reds stormed three outposts, and General de Castries' tired men could not get them back. The Reds dug in less than 600 yards from the French command post. Successively in French, Vietnamese, Arabic and German, Red loudspeakers blared: "Surrender...
...tossed tear-gas bombs. Mistaking the missiles for hand grenades, the crowd stampeded into a blind alley. In the crush, three women and a boy were trampled to death. The Reds had the martyrs they wanted. They quickly ordered a "National Demonstration of Mourning and Protest," a series of leapfrog strikes in the north, a 24-hour walkout in Sicily...
...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...