Word: leaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order and degree of our own humanity. Sex for us as human beings has to be blended with intelligence and with love. Intelligence as disciplined inquiry into truth, and love as the highest spiritual excellence, are something more than a mere impulse of curiosity or a sudden leap of lust...
...timely, yet live long beyond their time. Passing into the language, they help crystallize great issues of the past for future generations: "Give me liberty or give me death"; "Lebensraum"; "The world must be made safe for democracy"; "There'll always be an England"; "unconditional surrender"; "the Great Leap Forward"; "We shall overcome." In an increasingly complex society, as Hayakawa points out, such coinages are essential "short cuts to a consensus...
...course, will move steadily southward and eventually connect with Sicily at the Strait of Messina, serving as a vital economic life line for the entire region. It is only the latest of Italy's ambitious efforts to help Il Mezzogiorno (which means midday) move, in one great leap, from a medieval society directly into the age of automation...
...four occasions Ku Klux Klan members have driven by the Philadelphia office in pickup trucks, carrying rifles in their laps or in racks. COFO workers report that the Klansmen spin their tires, kicking up dust and dirt and forcing anyone in the road to leap aside for safety...
...considers his own name insurance enough, snapped her up for Mary Poppins; then Producer Marty Ransohoff, knowing that he could only profit by following Disney, cast Julie opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily, which opens in a fortnight or so. Twentieth Century-Fox was emboldened enough to leap into the act, too, putting Julie to work on the film version of The Sound of Music. Suddenly, at 29, she has become a thoroughgoing movie star, in demand all over town...