Word: springboarded
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...Replied he: "Many writers have told me that they have built up mnemonic devices to start them off ... Hemingway once told me he sharpened 20 pencils, Willa Gather that she read a passage from the Bible, not from piety . . . but to get in touch with fine prose. My own springboard has always been long walks. I drink a great deal, but I do not associate it with writing...
...overcoming the judges with a peerless exhibition, the women's defending champion, comely Pat McCormick, 26, a California housewife, spun through intricate optional dives, performed a final running full-twisting forward one-and-a-half somersault that was good enough to add the platform title to her springboard victory and make her the first diver ever to win both titles in two Olympics. This was slim pickings, indeed, compared to Russia's sweep of 11 of the 17 gold medals in gymnastics, three of which were won by lovely Larisa Latynina...
...vocal opposition to Castillo Armas is made up partly of a disorganized mixture of middle-readers like Cordova, non-Red leftists, intellectuals, students. Taking advantage of their disaffection is an organized Communist underground, intent on using the non-Communist opposition as a springboard back to power...
...Angel Chavez Rally" in Madison Square Garden. He packs the place with hard-core Communists, hot-eyed hangers-on, droning speechmakers and "entertainers." Kennedy collects his defense funds, and the party has its martyr, as well as its unsuspecting suckers. Next step: the conviction of Angel Chavez as a springboard for anticapitalist propaganda...
...doomed, gallant fight for what many Argentines still wish they had: liberty. By midweek the army troops who had occupied central Buenos Aires were back in their barracks, and General Lucero publicly handed back the special "repression" powers that for another, more ambitious man might have been an admirable springboard to total power...