Word: leaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...virtues. So do the thousands who came to see them off at the Cape and those who celebrated their return with flags and patriotic bumper stickers -few love beads among them, fewer bell-bottom trousers and no disparaging words about the nation. The moon landing was a mind-stretching leap into the future and an accomplishment shared by all America and indeed by the world. But it was especially an accomplishment of "middle America...
...That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind...
...prospects for man's first leap into the solar system will surely be enhanced by the success of such unmanned missions. Not only will they prove the feasibility of interplanetary travel, but they will help arouse the public support necessary for such journeys. To be sure, Americans will continue to agonize over the cost of the program -which NASA says will come to no more than .5% to 1% of the gross national product (currently running at $900 billion) a year. And the question of priorities will remain relevant as long as such earthly imperfections as poverty and pollution...
...TIME'S founders believed that ideas should actually leap off the page into the reader's mind, and the editors continue to live by that notion. TIME'S advertisers, too, have tried to tell their stories with verve and vibrancy. But we wondered what might happen if an advertising agency could feel free to talk about anything it chose-to turn its creative energy loose on any topic except a product...
...sacral scenes of church and cloister are followed by wild orgies of the possessed nuns and a ludicrous exorcising ceremony in which the crazed sisters howl, shriek and twitch like wolverines in heat. Present in nearly every scene is a revulsive chorus of guttersnipes, beggars, epileptics and whores who leap and leer with a demonic joy reminiscent of Hieronymous Bosch...