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Word: leaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desirable that important sectors of the Common Market's economy depend on outside decisions." he said. France, he made clear, not only wants to build an economic wall around Europe, but to put up some protectionist barbed wire on top against anyone tempted to leap over the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Chilly Welcome | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...concerned, all I need is my bedroom with a rocking chair, a flashlight and coon dog." As for pictures, said Davis, "the only ones I'd want would be a picture of my mother and father and a picture of the Bach Springs leap frog team, and go with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 25, 1963 | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...past the "critical point." or safety limit of the hill. After the first three hills, he had the championship sewed up. "All he needs," said a competitor, "is to toss his shoes over the edge." Yet on the fourth hill at Bischofshofen. he still jumped 320 ft., longest leap of the entire series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Hill | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...smothered a herd of cattle by clogging their noses and throats. Some animals have become so rattled at having their hoofs trimmed that they have broken their backs, and one prize Brahman bull being flown to a show in South America managed to work open the plane door and leap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurance: Animal Actuaries | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...person of luminous human qualities but an intuitive judge of mankind's hopes and needs. At first regarded as a transitional Pope who would only warm the chair of Peter, he took over the Catholic Church in 1958 at an age (nearly 77) when he was able to leap over the administrative details and parochial interests of the papacy and confront the world as "the universal shepherd." Unlike his predecessor, the scholarly and aloof Pius XII, John lets his interests range far beyond the Catholic fold to embrace the fundamental plight of man in the modern world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Man of the Year: Pope John XXIII | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

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