Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shells leap away from the stake boats at 40 strokes a minute for the first few hundred yards, and then settle into a longer, lower pace for the long pull through the middle of the race. Here the first variation in strategy appears, as the different strokes set the beat. Bill Curwen, for instance, never takes more than 10 sprinting strokes at the start, and then drops the beat all the way down to 31 for the rest of the race...
Minutes passed before the Effingham volunteer fire department, awakened by the station-house siren, got from their beds to the firehouse; by the time the first engine had ended a screaming 70-mile-an-hour run, desperate patients were leaping out windows. Yelling firemen hurriedly began raising ladders. So did nearby householders. Other men & women dragged mattresses from their houses, tried to use them to break the fall of those who were poised to leap with the flames licking at them...
...division of departmental loyalties and teaching time may not go smoothly in the near future. But if the Faculty can make the scheme come off, the level of a Harvard education will take a long leap upwards...
...decided that fresh blood outside the University was vitally necessary. We would try maids, ask men on the street, quiz gas station attendants. The top man vowed that the average citizen in lonely nowadays and will leap at any chance to attend parties and pick up easy money...
...Crimson salvaged only four out of thirteen firsts. John Harrigan won the high jump, setting a new Cage record with a 6 feet, 7/8 inch leap; lacrosse captain Bob Forsyth took the 35-pound weight throw; Pat McCormick hit the yard first in the 60-yard high hurdles; and Dave Carter won the broad jump...