Word: leapt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day, the great Detroiter (Hutchinson killer) was turned up, a monstrous craft capable of supporting twoscore men on her outstretched wings. Charging forward thunderously, she soon leapt up from the snow and swung about the sky. But she too, when she alighted, plowed through the snow so heavily that her landing gear crumpled; she stumbled forward on her nose, twisted a propeller and wrenched one powerful engine out of its moorings. No Pole flight for her either, for many weeks, and she was the plane that was to freight food and gasoline over the wastes to Point Barrow...
...cells took up the liquor, courage spouted through her veins, empurpled her falcon-face. Once more her skirt began to kiss her knee from above. Once more she leapt in air?Lenglen of the rotogravure sections, idol of a nation. The girl in the cotton dress left the net for the baseline. With a cat-cunning step that seemed a little weary, a little slow, she wove from side to side, forehand, backhand, stroking hard, deftly?but not so hard, not so deftly as a moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game...
...Pilot Art Smith, aged 32, whizzing eastward, got two miles out of his course crossing Ohio. Near Montpelier there grew a tree. How, why, one cannot say, a committee of the Service is investigating, but the tree was invisible to him. Night echoed a rending crash, flames leapt out of the wreckage. Pilot Art Smith of the Air Mail was no more, the second to die on duty since the overnight service started last July...
Eggs and bacon immediately leapt to his mind's eye and he scurried off to the House of Commons restaurant. To his great indignation, he found that breakfast was not served. To his querulous protestation he was informed that sessions of the House lasted until 8 o'clock in the morning only "once in a blue moon...
...child sat on a railroad track, played with a stray bolt, heedless of a freight, train which bore down upon it. The engineer jammed on the air brakes, but hisheavy cars had too much momentum; they shoved the engine forward; it could not stop. A fireman, one Bruce Hoffman, leapt from the engine, raced ahead, snatched the child to safety...