Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that it is rather unseemly to leap so hastily to the conclusion that the motive of Robert Kennedy's accused assassin derives from his virulent Arab nationalism, as you imply [June 14]. Let us wait and see what the trial will disclose-if it takes place; for another accident may occur. In any case, the fact remains that the only three men who since F.D.R.'s time seriously threatened the status quo are no more. And no presidential or other oratory will stop any thinking man, American or European, from regarding as strange the assertion that...
Like Carter Lord, Jeff Grate was blessed with abundant natural ability. Superbly coordinated and very strong, Grate burst on the Harvard sports scene as a jumping-jack sophomore basketball player. Only 6-1, he could leap with the Ivy centers, had a quick, accurate jump shot and looked like a sure-fire all-time Harvard great. In the spring of that sophomore year, Grate won the starting shortstop position on the varsity baseball team and won the Wendell Bat, awarded the team's most effective offensive player. Then he ran into eligibility problems and just managed to get through...
...calendar year to offset a deficit that could run as high as $25 billion - even after the cutback in expenditures - and bolster sagging international confidence in the dollar. During the second quar ter of 1968, the U.S. economy is expected to equal the first quarter's $20 billion leap forward in gross national product. With no rein on the economy, Johnson reasoned, inflation could lop 40 off every dollar's purchasing power during the year and help price U.S. exports out of world markets; tight money induced by Government borrowing to meet current bills could squeeze interest rates...
...Infinity Chamber, in which 6,000 tiny lights on the black, mirrored walls were reflected to create what seemed like an infinity of mirrors. The illusion of airy weightless ness thus engendered permitted viewers, in the words of the show's organizer, Ralph T. Coe, to "leap straight into the fourth dimension, experiencing what the astronauts have described when they walk in space." Still better, as far as the frazzled gallerygoers were concerned, everyone could leap straight out of the fourth dimension without having to worry about a re-entry problem...
...pastor at the moment of decadence. In The Other America, Harrington heaped coals on the heads of his middle-class pewholders by exposing the suffering of the "invisible poor"-and helped make it a new priority of national concern. In this book, Harrington attempts Jeremiah's longest leap: from the catalogue of sins to the calculus of redemption. "The American system doesn't seem to work any more," he says, and in Toward a Democratic Left proposes what he calls "practical intimations of a new civilization...