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Word: leaping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China's Outward Leap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: COMMUNIST RIVALS | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

Jangles & Bristles. It was a long leap from the days of bliss and blarney to the days of Ike, Nixon and Lodge, and before the moment of victory Jack Kennedy allowed himself to doubt that he might make it. In the final swing of the campaign, the Kennedy troupe was showing the frazzled edges of fatigue, even unaccustomed confusion. The motorcades in Connecticut and New York were dogged with inefficiency and out-of-kilter schedules ; so furious was Kennedy at one point that he stomped about in his Manhattan hotel room, called in his weary aides and chewed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Man of the New Frontier | 11/16/1960 | See Source »

...left hand, he cut down three of them, but was bayoneted by the fourth, the steel plunging deep into his chest. His face still extraordinary in its immobility, he seized the bayonet, pulled it out of his own flesh, cut down the man and, with another superhuman leap, cleared the wall and vanished into the darkness. We were left absolutely dumfounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Abdul v. Ivan | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...Fast Leap. Handsome Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, neutralism's only avowed Communist, walked in and out of conferences and intimate téte-á-tétes. His quarrel with Khrushchev, dating back to 1958, was temporarily dissolved again in a succession of handshakes and a long confabulation behind the grillwork doors of the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion.* Old Partisan Fighter Tito was himself living in capitalist splendor on Fifth Avenue, and spent his free time strolling in Central Park or watching the night glitter of Manhattan from the Rainbow Room, 64 stories above Rockefeller Plaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Peacemongers | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

...empirical, skeptical, relativistic, qualitatively derived from Kantian philosophy ("Immanuel Kant has rightly been called 'the Protestant Thomas Aquinas' "). Scientifically approached, God, or at least the historical Jesus, becomes "the great unknown." Argues Weigel: "There is here a despair of knowledge." Protestants evade this despair by a leap of faith powered by the will: they make an act of trust on a meaning and power we do not see nor understand. Religion is thus a call for decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dialogue for Siblings | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

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