Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such towering kangaroos as World Record Holder John Thomas of the U.S. (6 ft. 5½ in. tall); coaches still held to the idea that the highest anyone could jump was about one foot above his own head. At Rome, Brumel jumped that foot, beat Thomas with a leap of 7 ft. 1 in., and he has been adding on new inches ever since. His record against Thomas is six wins, no losses, and he holds the listed world records for both indoors (7 ft. 4 in.) and outdoors (7 ft. 4 in.). Said Brumel last week...
...javelin, and in such curiosities in the U.S. as the hop-step-and-jump, the walking race and the steeplechase. They also boast strong men in the broad jump and discus: Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, who recently broke Ralph Boston's broad jump record with a prodi gious leap of 27 ft. 3 in., and Vladimir Trusenev, who last month set a new discus record of 202 ft. 2½ in. But the U.S.'s Boston will be tough to beat at home. And so will the top U.S. discus thrower, Al Oerter, who was the first...
...announce in the ladies' division. At a meet in Leipzig, East Germany, muscular Shotputter Tamara Press had boosted her record with the 8.8-lb. women's shot to 60 ft. 10¼ in.; at the same meet, Broad Jumper Tatyana Shelkanova broke her own record with a leap...
Harvard pranksters made another leap into Cambride prominence with a revival of the nineteenth century's4THE LAMPOON Not Yet Subsided...
...keep few fishes, Who is that rose in that blind house? And all slim, gracious blind planes are coming, They cry badly along a rose, To leap is stuffy, to crawl was tender...