Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooperation with over 20 member organizations of American Overseas Aid, Ording's United Nations Appeal has turned to the citizens of 45 nations for extra funds. Throughout the world the campaign would reach a climax on Feb. 29 with a leap year appeal for every citizen to give the extra day's earnings. The committee, whose International Advisory Board is headed by former OPAster Chester Bowles, hopes to gather $60 million in the U.S. alone. A third of this would go directly to I.C.E.F. The rest would be divided among the Overseas Aid group agencies, including Quakers, Catholic...
...main jumping tournaments of the East, it is held on a 60-meter hill with entries expected to go as high as 75 including men from Norway and Finland. The late Torger Tokle holds the record for the event with a leap of 230-feet established...
Hollywood's go-slow attitude is not mere stubbornness; there are many hurdles to leap, many jitters to calm before the movies and television can make beautiful pictures together. James C. Petrillo's A.F.M. forbids the televising of any major films-past or present-using union musicians. Result: only B pictures or antiques reach the telescreen. Another factor: cautious, fiercely competitive Hollywood moves slowly-as it did in taking up sound 21 years ago. The highest hurdle is the real, ever-present fear that the living room teleset will make a deep dent in the nation...
...Nane, they say, ha'e I," lamented Robert Burns's lonely lassie. But, if statistics meant anything, every lassie could have her laddie this happy leap year. "Scotland," announced Registrar General J. G. Kyd last week, "is now the only European country where a maldistribution of sexes at marriageable age places women in a favorable position for finding husbands." The romantic ratio: 162,000 nubile Scotswomen, between the ages of 25 and 29, to match 176,000 unmarried men in the same age group...
...American Federation of Musicians, Caesar Petrillo has an imperial disdain for convention, and, when confronted by bacteria, he will stop at nothing. He roars like a wounded lion if a photographer lays a camera down near him; he believes microbes use cam eras as invasion barges to leap...