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Word: leapt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard moved in front with a freak goal after only one minute and 31 seconds of the first half. Tiger fullback Scott Messel leapt into the air to try and clear a corner kick with his head, only to have the ball deflect off his airborne right leg into the corner of his own goal. The referee credited Harvard's Mike Mogollan with the score...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Booters Shut Out Tigers, 2-0 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Moments later, the Harvard bench leapt to its feet, arms raised in apparent celebration of a Michael Smith goal. Smith banged a ball from inside the penalty area that appeared to go inside the right post. Miraculously, however, Coombs managed to tip it wide...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Soccer Escapes With Win Over Wesleyan, 1-0 | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

Substituting for the injured Pete Walsh, who hyper-extended his hand in practice and may be healed for Saturday's UConn game, goalie Billy Blood rose to the task on the one or two occasions he was tested. With about 15 minutes left he leapt high to punch a free kick away from the dangerous head of 6'5" Steve Mooney...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Soccer Escapes With Win Over Wesleyan, 1-0 | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

...first pair of reading glasses, which I did not need." He introduced himself to Elizabeth as she took down a volume of Thomas Mann from a library shelf; he is 30, she is 18, and one day with the same carelessness he brought to their relationship he leapt to his death from a bridge. Or Alex A., working at the Museum of Modern Art, living in his studio, "a snob, a dandy, and a Marxist." An old friend, "very handsome and a little depressed by nature, but anxious to please and in this pleasantness somewhat impersonal. For this reason...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Company She Kept | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...overconfident Bulldogs leapt out in front, 2-0, when the Crimson defense suffered its only lapse of the game and allowed the Yale attack to pump in two quick shots...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Laxwomen Score Upset Over Bulldogs | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

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