Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a matter of weeks. Eichmann's response was to step up his shipments to the slaughterhouses. "We must hurry," he said. Then he decamped, leaving behind him his aristocratic mistress, Baroness Ingrid von Ihme. He assured other SS men he would commit suicide, that he would "leap into my grave happy because we will at least have wiped out Europe's Jews...
...first Prime Minister. Many white moderates were openly urging Kenyatta's immediate release to break the political deadlock. Swallowing hard, Nairobi's white-run Nation declared: "He refuses to commit himself on any major problems facing the country. [But] there comes a point when a leap in the dark has to be taken...
...other two field records were set by Crimson ace Tom Biodgett in the pole vault and broad jump. Biodgett's pole vault of 13 ft. broke by six inches the meet record he set last year. The broad jump was a Crimson disappointment, aside from Blodgett's record leap of 22 ft., 11 in. "Zik" Asikiwe had a bad day, and Alan Albright, although he qualified for the finals, and although he was the most consistent Crimson jumper throughout the day, was unable to squeeze out the few extra inches necessary to place...
...classic studies of a nose or an eye, or how the subject folds her hands." Then, after several days of thinking about the subject-planning "the color, the composition, what should be left out and what put in," Bouche paints rapidly. "Painting," he says, "has to be spontaneous, to leap from the guts to the brush. It's like a bullfight. The man has 25 minutes to fight the bull. He can't think during that time, but all his life goes into the preparation...
Jenkins calls himself an "abstract phenomenist." When he has finished four or five paintings. "I have conversations with them, and they tell me what they want to be called-like Phenomena Outside Leap or Phenomena Curving Out or Phenomena Flint Lock." As James Jones said, it is sometimes difficult to know what the hell he is talking about. But his liquid abstractions can speak for themselves...