Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young lady (Shirley Anne Field) whose profession requires her to leap out of cakes at stag parties without icing distracts the hero for a time. But at last the moonship is fired. The scientists wait tensely for news. After two days it comes. Rocket haters will be cheered to learn that the first thing More sees at his landing site is a Heinz baked-bean...
...until Tennessee State's girls (most notably Olympic Triple Gold Medal Winner Wilma Rudolph) finish training before he can use the track, and gets up at 6 a.m. on Sundays to work out, set two world broad-jump marks this season: indoors, with a 26 ft. 6-in. leap; outdoors, with a 27-ft. ½in. effort...
...McGregor Fairhaven. It would be easy to dismiss these characters as anxious bores if they were not also unholy ghosts, shadows of a perturbed spirit, "ghouls of past delirium, wounds to other souls, ghosts of actions approximating to murder, betrayals of self and I know not what, ready to leap out and destroy me." One always begins, in Lowry, by rejecting the self-pity and ends by respecting the suffering...
...Crimson's first meet of the spring, Marty Beckwith was second in the high jump with a leap of 5 ft., 9 1/2 in. Saturday, he cleared 6 ft., 4 in. for the second week in a row, to tie for second place--one inch behind John Thomas of B.U.--and clinch a berth on the Harvard-Yale squad that will face Oxford and Cambridge. With all this at stake, Beckwith made 6 ft., 2 in. on his third try, and then soared over 6 ft., 4 in. on his first attempt...
Please Write. Though A.H.S. has showed a profit every year except 1933 (when it snowed a $26 loss), its big leap forward is the result of a master growth plan drawn up ten years ago by Chairman McGaw and President Thomas Murdough. Acquisition of 15 other companies has played a big part. Even more important has been the McGaw-inspired selling technique, which sends 450 A.H.S. salesmen, all experts in their products, swarming through the nation's hospitals dispensing technical know-how and money-saving suggestions. Says a competitor: "You just get surrounded by their tremendous manpower." A.H.S. bombards...