Word: springboarded
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That's what happened last year, when the Crimson used Duke as a springboard to its best Ancient Eight Finish in 40 years...
...students hope that their informal visit to the Nicaraguan university can be a springboard for a more formal exchange program for medical students who want to get credit for studies in that country, Schuster said. Similar exchanges are currently run by the Med School with Colombia and Puerto Rico, but plans for a Nicaraguan exchange are at least a year away, the students said...
...switch-hitting theater folk in business for a decade and lately receiving wider acclaim for their Manhattan transfers of Sam Shepard's True West and C.P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman and the film Places in the Heart. In his liberal adaptation of Wilson's text, Malkovich has shown some up-front ingenuity: spotlighting or freeze-framing a conversation, orchestrating the Ivesian symphony of invective, offering instant replays...
...which the hands and arms drill a hole in the water for the body to follow. At first the American women, traditionally the world's best, could not match these elegant entries. They learned soon enough, but the Chinese kept improving too. As the Olympic women's springboard finals began, the question was whether Li Yihua, 21, or Li Qiaoxian, 16, the two slim, graceful Chinese divers, could take the gold over two Americans: Kelly McCormick, 24, daughter of Pat McCormick, who won springboard and platform golds in both 1952 and '56, and Chris Seufert, 27, veteran...
Three days later, after Louganis had won his gold and Ron Merriott, 24, of the U.S. had followed Tan Liangde's silver with a bronze, springboard diving gave way to platform competition. The contrast is sharp and fascinating. The best parallel in sport may be to skiing. Springboard diving, like slalom racing, requires great agility and tuning as the diver catches the flex of the board and rides it for maximum spring. Platform diving is like downhill racing, a dangerous, gut-sucking plunge that seems insane to onlookers and sometimes to participants. The concrete platform, of course, does...