Word: leapt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then the battle was disconcerted again. An observer (the Hearst press) noticed what looked like a spy within the Republican lines. The observer told Chief of Staff Harrison, chief hurler of Democratic sarcasm grenades. To the breast-works leapt Harrison and shouted that Brigadier Bingham, the Republican's most air-conscious hero and a superb college professor, had harbored in his tent one Charles L. Eyanson, assistant to the chieftain of the Manufacturers' Association in Brigadier Bingham's home domain of Connecticut; that this Eyanson had received federal pay as Bingham's assistant, what time...
...whole day. The next day Field Marshal Simmons, finding that he had turned two pages of his speech together (by accident), brought out the lost page and read it to his eager followers. Then, not to omit any element of a proper epic, Chief of Staff Pat Harrison leapt upon the Democratic parapet and reviled the leaders of the enemy. Said...
...whole game was replete with thrills and the outcome was uncertain until the final whistle blew. In the first half Syracuse quickly leapt into a 2 to 1 lead, but the Crimson players launched a fierce offensive which kept their opponents at bay all through the initial period. The Harvard offense was led by R.G. Glenn '30, and only the stellar goal-tending of Gidlow prevented several tallies...
...again he may be handicapped by his late start in training. Last year he won the event with a leap of 22 feet 1 1-4 inches, but this year Dartmouth has Canby, the favorite, who is capable of a 23-foot jump. Donner of the Green has also leapt well over 22 feet. Becker of Cornell must also be considered. French will have to be up to form in order to capture the necessary second place...
...Hoover line jerked, went slack, jerked again. Below the water a rapier snout struck at the bonito, crunched on the hook. The fisherman let his line out fast, as the creature sped away, leapt into sunlight, shook itself angrily. The Hoover line was taut again and remained so for 25 struggling minutes, as the next President and his first sailfish fought it out in the Gulf Stream...