Word: leapings
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...also dismissed any serious problem of antagonism toward such a leap in Harvard involvement in Cambridge affairs. The City's people are always suspicious of surveys, he said, but in this case none of their money will be used, and he can foresee only beneficial effects...
...Leap & Smash. Since the 18,000 men of the Air Cav arrived in Viet Nam just a year ago, they have killed more than 5,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops, and lost only 900 dead of their own. Their swift sorties into the Red-dominated central highlands have captured 1,200 other Communist troops, along with some 2,000 weapons. Chinese-manufactured machine guns line the walk leading to Air Cav Major General John Norton's headquarters located near An Khe, a proud display of hard-won enemy weaponry. Air Cav troopers, using the strategy of General...
...tactic of leap and smash was perfected in 53 major operations-more than one a week-that ranged from the la Drang Valley ("the Valley of Death," as the division remembers it) to the Bong Son Plains, hard by the South China Sea. Its 430 choppers, flying from a carefully cropped launch pad outside An Khe, have carried men and whole batteries of snub-nosed 105s and 155s into places no one would have imagined. The Air Cav's noisy "gunships" have developed to a fine art the use of their rocket artillery in close support of the heliborne...
...version has it that Mao during his recent six-month absence from public view was being urged by President Lui Shao-chi to refrain from an other Leap Forward. Mao, so the story goes, enlisted his own wife to whip up support for him. She, in turn, recruited Lin Piao to Mao's cause...
...Luck. As far as the public knows, Earhart and Noonan left Lae, New Guinea, on July 1, 1937, on the most dangerous leg of their trip-a 2,550-mile leap to tiny (one square mile) Rowland Island, where no plane had ever landed before. Early on July 2, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, standing by at Rowland, received a series of messages from Pilot Earhart reporting that she was unsure of her position and that she was running low on gas. Her last message, delivered in a broken and choked voice, was a plea...