Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fowler's breaststroke events are scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Mahoney will compete in the one-metre springboard diving today and the three-metre spring-board on Saturday...
Bucky is indebted to S.I.U. for providing him with both a home base and a springboard, and Fuller's fame has helped repay the debt, Sixteen years ago, there were only 3,013 students on the Carbondale campus: today there are no fewer than 18,201 students and a faculty of 1,154. And the university has just been awarded a $10 million, three-year space project, which Bucky will head...
...also became the particular protege of family friend and fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, who got President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to appoint Johnson director of the National Youth Administration for Texas. Lyndon used his position as a springboard to a successful campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives. He was then 29, and except for seven months in the Navy, he has held national elective office ever since...
...play soccer. They head the ball expertly, smash into one another, knock over nets and goal posts in canicidal scoring rushes, spill out of bounds by the yelping dozen, and engulf helpless photographers in their wild, uncontainable scrimmage. A man walking on 8-ft. stilts steps onto a springboard; two men jump onto the other end of the springboard, and the stilt man arcs into the air, 25 ft. up, slowly turning over in a backward somersault, landing perfectly on his stilts...
...hands of the mayor, who holds down on school expenses to keep the rest of the city running. This leaves the school committee (Boston for "board") with reduced responsibility, but it keeps busy. Its five members are elected every two years and have long used the job as a springboard for higher office...