Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turning to the Negro situation more generally, Miss Stokes saw the "summary of the Negro attitude in this country as taking a leap forward in the last ten years." She pointed to the progress in government job opportunities, housing and education for Negroes...
...face. When he has completed a flourish of movements, he has a trick of presenting himself to the audience with shoulders thrown back and arms outstretched, calling for the ovation that never fails to come. His ability to rivet attention on himself-whether in a soaring lift, a pantherlike leap, or a flamboyant succession of jetes-is so marked that resident dancers gather in the wings to watch...
...Sofia that Premier Anton Yugov, ex-Dictator Vulko Chervenkov, and six other bigwigs were being fired as Stalinists. Yugov was slapped under house arrest, accused of ordering the executions of "numerous honest and innocent comrades." Only three years ago, the Bulgarian regime had tried to emulate the Chinese "great leap forward" and also had fallen flat on its face. Now it was Khrushchev's turn to pick up the pieces...
Underwood's figures give a first impression of having been created by a slightly dotty humorist. They cavort and prance, leap and fly, as if under the spell of a pleasantly chaotic orchestra. At times the rhythms become so frenetic that the small figures look as if they might shake themselves apart. Yet the surface humor quickly peels away to reveal more serious intentions underneath. Underwood's sculptures are expressions of ideas, some of which he transforms into dances of joy and some into gestures of despair...
...least seven other East German refugees made it across last week. One man jumped from a rooftop to an elevated railway signal tower, then scrambled across the tracks to leap 20 feet into the waiting arms of West Berlin cops. Another suffered eight fractures when he stepped on a Communist land mine on the border, nevertheless crawled 13 hours through forests to reach the West...