Word: springboarded
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...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...
...human being. His style was a Flemish variation of the German and Scandinavian expressionism. Then in 1936 he discovered the surrealist work of Italy's Giorgio de Chirico ("I was haunted by his poetry of silence and obsession") and Belgium's René Magritte. "They were the springboard that brought me into my own world," he says. Delvaux destroyed almost every painting he had ever done and began anew...
...delighted with the freedom he was given. Now Detroit got its first touch of Yamasaki's art. For the neoclassic Federal Reserve Bank, he built a modern addition, a Le Corbusier-style building set back 30 ft., forming a small plaza planted with trees. The springboard job of Yamasaki's career came to him in 1951. He and two S. H. & G. colleagues had formed a firm of their own, and they got a commission to do the Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Air Terminal - a work that was to set the standard for a wave of airport buildings...