Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warm weather parks are better hunting grounds than pubs. With the increase of U.S. troops in London, no girl need stroll alone. More aggressive than Tommies, or even the fast-working Canadians, a U.S. soldier does not hesitate to leap off a Hyde Park bench and catch a passing pretty around the waist. Average forgiveness time, they report, is three minutes for civilians, somewhat longer for girls in uniform. For daylight dates, soldiers like the prestige of uniforms. But they tend to choose unmilitary women for the evening: service girls must report back to barracks by 11 o'clock...
Then he hurried back into the stadium again to leap 5 feet 10 inches to corner the high jump market. Out again for the javelin toss which won the first place medal, and, to cap off a terrific afternoon's work, a 49 foot 5 3/4 inch 16-pound shot put heave to a new meet record. This mark, incidentally, betters the Yale Varsity mark, as well as the old Freshman distance...
...Garland shared honors with speedster Frank Coolidge, who collected 13 points by virtue of his 10-second winning performance in the 100, a 22 flat clocking in the 220 to take that event equally handily, and a 21 foot leap to gather in a second place in the broad jump...
...first time since Jutland, a German navy could look forward to operations on blue water, not as skulking submarine raiders, nor like the Graf Spec and Bismarck, running for their lives before the pursuing British, but as a force that could stand and fight, or leap to a kill. Now, once again, Germany had a fleet in being. That fleet was small, but it was well built, new and powerful. It was gathered in the north, where it could strike as a unit...
...scrambled scores of Jap planes on the ground; at Darwin, where four, possibly six, Jap bombers fell in one raid. More & more U.S. and Australian planes met fewer & fewer Japanese planes. Still more U.S. fighters, pilots and ground crews were arriving; more bombers were completing the long air-ferry leap across the Pacific...