Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winning big. Last August, competing with a badly spiked right knee, he broke Jesse Owens' 25-year-old outdoor broad jumping record of 26 ft., 8¼ in. Then, in rapid succession, he shattered Owens' 24-year-old Olympic mark, became the first man ever to leap 26 ft. indoors (where the runways are shorter) and the only one to jump 27 ft. outdoors. Fortnight ago, in Moscow, Boston jumped 27 ft, 1¾ in. to set a new world record for the third time in eleven months...
...than any other nation-close to 300 a year-the Tour de France is the most expensive, prolonged and perilous marathon of them all. This year's Tour pitted 132 brawny-thighed riders against a brutal 2,750-mile course. Starting at Rouen, the race cut through Belgium, leaped the Alps into Italy, streaked across the south of France into the Pyrenees, and wound northeast along the stately Loire to Paris. The sunburned, dust-caked riders quit at 5 p.m. each day, laying over at night in Tricolor-draped towns that paid up to $8,000 for the privilege...
...eliminate costly separate facilities and ground crews. The CAB's new Chairman Alan S. Boyd, 39, is merger-minded, and he is already hunting a strong mate for Northeast Airlines. His goal is to strengthen the airlines so that they will be able to make the next technological leap forward-to supersonic jets by the early 1970's-without massive federal subsidy. To accomplish that, Chairman Boyd believes that the CAB must abandon its policy of rewarding the weak to keep them alive. "That era has passed," says Boyd. "My philosophy is one of consolidation...
Reminding Eichmann of his oft-quoted statement in 1945 that "I will gladly leap into my grave knowing that 5,000,000 enemies of the Reich had been wiped out along with me," Hausner hammered at Eichmann to get him to admit that he had considered the Jews to be the enemy, and finally Eichmann surrendered saying, "Yes, the Jews were the enemy...
...Baker's Wife, The Well-Digger's Daughter) first told his sentimental fable of the Marseilles waterfront as a trio of plays, then as a charming film trilogy in the early 19305. Theatergoers will remember with no leap of the heart that by 1954 Fanny had become an overweight Broadway musical. Inexplicably encouraged, Director Josh Logan set about making a new screen version, having prudently purchased the assurance that Pagnol's trilogy would not be shown concurrently...