Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel in this village? I find I'm sleeping about 11 hours a day. We tour the village for an hour and a half every morning and night. Aside from that--nothing. On the rare occasions when I hear two people in the village speaking French I have a leap of recognition and pleasure, as if it were my native language...
...reasons for Pyongyang's shift are largely economic. To close the gap between North Korea's backward agriculture and burgeoning industry, Kim seven years ago launched a "Great Leap Forward" of his own. As a symbol, he picked Chollima - a legendary flying horse that could cover 1,000 ri (300 miles) in a single bound. A bronze Chollima was mounted atop a tower in downtown Pyongyang, and 11 million North Koreans stolidly set out to increase production of everything from pig iron to fertilizer. By late 1963, Chollima had begun to stumble: inadequate transportation caused foul...
...value, will soon be minting unheard-of profits. With the new copper-nickel alloy coins authorized by the bill, the cost of turning out a dime will drop from 9.5? to .6? quarters, from 23.6? to 1.5? and half dollars, from 47.3? to 26.5?. Revenues from coin manufacture will leap from some $100 million in 1965 to $1 billion...
What did Manry's fellow copyreaders think of his sudden leap out of anonymity? "He was here when I arrived five years ago," said one, "and quite honestly, I never did know much about him until this happened...
...Rubinstein was so impressed, in fact, that he asked Szeryng (pronounced Sharing) to make a record album with him, later induced Impresario Sol Hurok to book him for a 20-concert tour of the U.S. A modest man, Szeryng was hesitant to take the leap from the academic world to the concert stage, finally decided: "If this great master has this sort of confidence in me, why shouldn't I?" Since then, he has established himself as one of the world's top-ranking violinists, just as Rubinstein had said he would...