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Word: leaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's victory came in the triple jump right after the Yardlings had dropped both relays to fall one point behind. Princeton held first and second in the event going into the final leap, but Johnson raced down the strip to go 46'8" and break the oldest freshman record at Harvard. Frank Connelly set the old record of 45 feet when he won in the 1896 Olympics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Performances Pace Trackmen Past Tigers; Baseball Team Downs Exeter Nine in Hitter's Duel | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

ROMP!! (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). A lighthearted leap through the where-it's-at world of the young, guided by Michele Lee and Ryan O'Neal, with not-so-young Guests Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Allen, Jimmy Durante, Liberace and Casey Stengel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 19, 1968 | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

Robert Kennedy's strategy is to sweep the primaries, draw such big crowds and show such support in the polls that the convention delegates will have no choice but to leap aboard his steamroller. As he roared through Michigan, Indiana and West Virginia last week, the crowds and the polls, at least, were right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Going Like '60 | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...number of Christians who rejoice at this prospect rather than fear it. This is not because they want to see the fainthearted and the half convinced drift away into unbelief. Rather, they prefer that the choice of being Christian once again become openly, as Kierkegaard puts it, a leap of faith, an adult decision to serve as one of God's pilgrims on the road of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON BEING A CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...this point that the experts begin to bicker. The cautious would wait for more returns before making policy. Others favor a leap into the unknown. Circumstances favor the bolder; as David Cohen points out--the Federal government has already made a massive commitment to compensatory education. And the ghettos are demanding answers. The risk of costly failures, however, remains...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Educational Review | 4/9/1968 | See Source »

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