Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once Bucknell got the ball again, Lerro went back to the airways. He went six for six passing to Kinsey and Mitchell, with Mitchell catching a seven-yarder down the middle for the second Bison score, just over Dockery's desperate leap...
...moves again, and this time an eye peers out from under it. "Let's go!" a voice cries hoarsely, and in rapid succession three men (Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Gilles Segal) leap out of the pit, run crouching to a door, dart stealthily across a large dim room and go leaping up a narrow stair within the walls. Once on the roof, they make a risky traverse and arrive, with twilight coming on, at the brink of a sheer parapet interrupted here and there with iron-barred apertures...
...foreign correspondents" in eleven hemisphere countries at last count. From Peking itself comes 38½ hours of powerful short-wave radio broadcasts each week -in impeccable Spanish and Portuguese-railing at U.S. imperialism, urging violent revolution, sniping at the Russians and crooning about Red China's Great Leap Forward. Added to that is a growing stream of printed material, including such glossy magazines as China Reconstructs and the fortnightly airmailed Peking Review...
...record of 66 ft. 3½ in., one put going 67 ft. 10 in., then walked off muttering that he did not quite "feel right." In the pole vault, Fred Hansen reset the world record for the third time in two months with a soaring 17 ft. 4 in. leap. "Next time I'm going to have them raise the bar to 18 ft. and get it over with," he said impatiently...
...fluoridated Crest toothpaste, and the $320 million dentifrice industry has not been the same since. Crest doubled its sales within a year, then passed Colgate Dental Cream, the longtime leader, to win the nation's No. 1 selling spot. The side effects of Crest's leap were consider able: a few fringe toothpastes were forced off the market, other brands' advertising budgets soared to keep up with Crest, and almost everybody in the business hurried back to the laboratory to develop a fluoride toothpaste...