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Word: leaping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primary features of these buildings will be primary colors, loudly splashed from floor to floor and interspersed with raw concrete. They leap nervously into the air in their naked ugliness and cover great spaces of ground, obscuring every neighboring building. Only a squinting eye could fail to spot the more hideous elements of Holyoke Center; the other Sertrousity will be worse...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: Incinerator Gothic | 5/20/1963 | See Source »

...Doten won the hammer throw as expected for the Crimson, but Bulldogs unexpectedly took the second and third positions behind Doten's 176 ft., 9 3/4 in toss. In the broad jump Heptagonal champion Jim Axtell once again beat out Chris Ohiri and Aggrey Awori with a leap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Trackmen Defeat Crimson Squad, 76-73 | 5/20/1963 | See Source »

...envied our more financially blessed citizens for their expensive art objects. Now we not only feel their equals, but, if my civil suit for the return of two old jackets I gave to the Salvation Army is successful, I sincerely feel that we can take one giant leap up the local social ladder to a position of unchallenged eminence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1963 | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...gown, had three African bridesmaids for the ceremony on Fuller-Sandys' veranda, performed by the Rev. Richard Hughes, rector of an Anglican church at Que Que 64 miles away. That night, under a full moon, the wedded couple attended an African celebration in their honor. There was much leap-dancing and yelling around a campfire. During the evening Fuller-Sandys had a chance to open a letter delivered to him earlier in the day. Bearing neither return address nor signature, it said, "You bloody white Kaffir, what a disgrace to the country you are . . . Your beloved black bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Rhodesia: Breaking the Rules | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...something in common: the "inner necessity" of which the Blue Rider movement spoke, combined with a sense of interdependence. From ancient Greece to Rodin to Lipchitz is a distant course but logical. From the lushness of Delacroix to the colored orchestrations of the Fauves is hardly a giant leap; and the abstract expressionists have claimed Turner as a father. In this one week, the world's walled museums are helping to build Malraux's museum without walls by bringing to millions at firsthand a cross section, however fortuitous, of the history of the last two centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Before Your Very Eyes | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

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