Word: springboarded
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Early closed his lecture by telling the audience that he hopes his writing will serve as a springboard for the discussion of broader racial and cultural issues...
Westfall hoped to be drafted into the WUSA or, barring that, go to an open tryout. Her plan was to play for three or four years and then pursue a career in sports law, provided that the WUSA did not ultimately prove to be a springboard to the U.S. National Team—an occurrence that she did not expect but optimistically did not want to rule...
Unlike 41 other states, Massachusetts does not yet have an official life sciences initiative, but Porter said that the region’s “pre-eminent” cluster of institutions and private industry could serve as a springboard for growth...
Matisse and Picasso played a game of diagonal leapfrog, each using the other's work as a springboard to a new direction. So it was partly the young Picasso's confrontation with Matisse's Fauve canvases that pushed him toward Cubism. Matisse looked over Picasso's explosive venture, recoiled, then replied with pictures that exploded old notions of space without violating his profound compliance with the ideal of beauty...
...interior minister later said one of the two extremists, who were killed when the Marines returned fire, had sworn allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Kuwait is a critical element of U.S. plans for a possible invasion of Iraq. The oil-rich emirate is likely to be the main springboard for any land invasion. More than 15,000 U.S. troops are already stationed here, training in the bleak desert south of the Iraqi border...