Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sullivan finished behind Princeton's Charles Forlidas, who shattered the 1975 H-Y-P meet record with a breathtaking 7-ft., 1 1/2-in. leap to claim first place...
...usually-dominating Derek Horner placed fourth in the long jump with a 6.85-meter leap and then ran his best 55-meter dash of the season (6.39) to place second by one hundreth of a second...
Only one Crimson member managed to win an event in the men's meet. Freshman Derek Horner captured the long jump with a leap of 22'10". John Brzezenski threw a 55'7" in the 35-lb. weight throw, his best this season, but placed only fourth...
...when the U.S. normalized relations with China, imports of Chinese weapons as well as other goods became legal. Purchases of the AK-47 copy soared from a mere 4,000 a year as recently as 1985-86 to more than 40,000 last year. There has also been a leap in sales of the MAC-10, a relatively cheap U.S.-manufactured semiautomatic; the AR-15, a semiautomatic copy of the U.S. military's M-16 infantry rifle; and a semiautomatic version of the Israeli-made...
...During the Tet offensive in Saigon, the police chief's arm in profile that draws a straight line through his trigger finger and by the leap of the bullet into the fear-rigid Viet Cong's brain: a crisp extinction. The weird surprise of death, the pop into non-being. In the TV version, the man falls like a short tree and his head pours neat but urgent blood upon the street, as from a vial...