Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Could Have Been . .." Meanwhile police scoured the neighborhood for clues. A woman had seen a man's dark figure running across Reuther's backyard after the shot. Three boys had seen someone leap into an automobile-a red 1947 or 1948 Ford sedan-and drive madly away. By calculating the angle of fire, the cops decided that the gunman was 5 ft. 6 in. tall and righthanded. But who was he? Why had he fired...
...last four leap years the Winnipeg Tribune had listed Garnet Coulter among the city's most eligible bachelors. He looked like a fixture. A man who enjoyed duck hunting and poker sessions with the boys, he was thought to be an impregnable singleton. Besides, Garnet Coulter, mayor since 1942, had a big city...
Agnes de Mille had made a flying leap from ballet to Broadway-and Broadway had cheered her dances in Oklahoma!, Carousel and Brigadoon. But could she as gracefully jump back? Last week, in the Metropolitan Opera House, a Ballet Theatre audience was cheering her Rail River Legend, too. The critics joined...
...three weeks. As usual, Coach Mikkola's field men had a soft afternoon, scoring 61 points to 9 for the Cross and 7 for B.U. Sam Felton won the hammer (172 feet, 3 inches) and the discus for the third straight Saturday. Biggest surprise was George Kumple's winning leap of 22 feet, 5 3/4 inches in the broadjump...
Alabama's hulking Governor "Big Jim" Folsom hulked into Manhattan to be installed as "No. 1 Leap Year Bachelor" by the publicity-conscious Barbizon Studio of Fashion Modeling. In the course of a much-photographed kissing tour of the city, he managed to stop traffic on Fifth Avenue.* He also delivered himself of an opinion on the Marshall Plan which disclosed that he had not altogether forgotten the paternity suit against him (TIME, March 15): "When it comes a-weanin' time [those European countries] are gonna squeal. You ever weaned a baby, honey? No? You try it, honey...