Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom was feeling fine when he set out on a drive to Washington last week. He hoped to testify before a congressional committee on tidelands oil. He planned to go to New York to see some fashion models who had voted him No. I Leap Year Bachelor, and thus get his picture in the papers. As a self-avowed presidential candidate, he also hoped to rebroadcast a campaign promise-that he would take his "ole cornshuck mop and his ole suds bucket" and sweep up the Democratic Party...
...inside it, throwing out vague exhortations." The reason, he thinks, is that "Wallace wants to be loved, and followed by everybody, just as he wants to believe every doctrine all at once." For much the same reason "Wallace's words don't spring, they don't leap, they don't even stumble; they just ooze ... his writing is that of a sick and troubled man, a man not at peace with himself. . . ." Macdonald thinks that Wallace's behavior in the 1932 campaign was typical of the man "boxing the political compass in true Wallacian style...
...play drew large crowds for each performance. For services connected with the use of Sanders, the Workshop had to pay the University about $560. If the play had been a failure financially, HTW couldn't have paid its bills. And apparently, University aid in such a dilemma would not leap forth...
...Oops another sarter," said the svelte Smith coed as she heard a suspicious snap beneath her ski pants at the Darmouth winter carnival after negotiating Dead Man's Leap and landing in an undignified posture in Horror Gulch...
Bibbia roared into Church Leap with his face a few inches from the ice, steering with his body, breaking & banking with his spiked boots. For a fleeting second, he could see the white panorama of St. Moritz, and directly below-extending a sinister invitation-the village cemetery. One false move would put him in it. A few yards further, he roared into a sharp right turn, had no trouble until his skeleton sled went too high into Shuttlecock. With a desperate jerk, he brought it down. Said he afterwards: "I still had two fingers of space between the edge...