Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field events were better. Ted Bailey took a first place in the hammer throw with a 191 ft., 6 in. heave, and Rick DeLone won the discus. Broad jumpers Chris Ohiri, Sid Marland, and Marty Beckwith swept that event with Ohiri's 22 ft., 10 1/4 in. leap setting the pace...
...Nijinsky is followed by an illuminating sketch of a rocking chair done in 1951. Here, the chair's structure is so loose that its parts seem about to fly off to form a new and wholly unpredictable pattern. The jump from there to Probst I is not a leap...
...room, though the most cluttered, suggests wide horizons and exotic places to the innocent young wife, just as Pere Jules, though subhuman, represents the furthest reaches of human experience, particularly on a sensual level. He enchants her with his stories, and then wrestles here roughly into bed. The cats leap about hysterically...
...Joxe escaped to Algeria to carry on the resistance, helped plan the North African landings. Later, he was France's ambassador to Moscow (1952-55); as ambassador to Bonn in 1956, he helped negotiate the Saar treaty by which France and Germany took the first big leap toward economic integration. In 1959, after De Gaulle had returned to power, Joxe became Secretary of State to Premier Debré, presided over far-reaching government reforms. According to friends, Joxe was disappointed that he had not become De Gaulle's Foreign Minister, but he has performed so brilliantly...
When Saarinen died at 51 last September, he left a portfolio of projects that include much of his most daring work.† Of these, the CBS building was unique in Saarinen's eyes because "it will be the simplest skyscraper statement in New York," a "vertical leap of masonry and glass." In a "return to solid, massive strength," the structure will be made of granite-clad reinforced concrete instead of structural steel, rising without a break in line from the green-granite faced, sunken plaza surrounding it. Triangular columns carrying wiring, heating and air ducts will rise...