Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pardee, broad-jumping for the first time in two months, shared first place with Yale favorite Paul Jones at 23 ft. 29 in, and then later broke his own meet record in the high jump with a 6 ft, 3 in, leap. Harvard's Harvey Thomas placed third in the broad jump at 22 ft, 4 1/2 in, and Charles Njoku's 6 ft, 4 in gained a share of third place in the high jump...
...18th century was this triumphant affirmation of Haydn's faith. Translated from the German and sung clearly in English, the oratorio will seem especially vivid to U.S. listeners because the music so closely fits the words. One hears the tawny lion roar, the insects swarm and the tiger leap for the first time on earth. Frederic Waldman conducts the Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, and Soprano Judith Raskin, as Gabriel, sings brilliantly, at times eclipsing her more earthbound fellow archangels, Tenor John McCollum and Bass Chester Watson...
...only event about which Brooks is unsure is the dive. Pete Alter will definitely leap and twist, but the second spot could be filled by either John Friedman or Corky Vines...
First, with a yelp and a soaring leap, came the Yugoslav National Folk Ballet. Then came the Poles and the Georgians and the Ukrainians and the Rumanians and the Bulgarians- all with a yelp and a soaring leap. In the past ten years, the U.S. has been yelped and leaped at by more than a dozen different folk-dancing troupes from Eastern Europe, and with each successive wave it becomes increasingly difficult to separate last week's folk from this week's folk. Without fail, fear or falter, they follow in one another's folksteps...
Another disappointment was Chris Pardee, who didn't compete in the high jump. Dick Loebl, the team manager, said that Pardee stayed away because he "doesn't want to reach his peak too early." John Thomas won with a piddling leap...