Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troupe ever come up to the fiery Mexican standard set by Carmen Amaya and her numerous brothers, sisters, and cousins. It's not that her dancing is any more exciting than the Spanish variety, but just that there are no dancers with the "Cabalgata" company who make you leap out of your seat and shout...
...second freshman goal came on a penalty kick at 12:50 of the second quarter. Charlie Ufford's free kick was safely beyond the goalie's leftward leap...
Even Russian Communists have sticky little bourgeois problems, it appeared from the autobiography of Oksana Kasenkina, the schoolteacher who escaped last year from the U.S.S.R.'s New York consulate by jumping out of a third-floor window. In her Leap to Freedom, Mrs. Kasenkina tells how the wife of Soviet Diplomat Andrei Gromyko appealed for her help in vetoing a romance between Gromyko's adolescent son Anatoli and pretty young Klava, who, after all, was only the daughter of a lowly embassy chauffeur...
Creation of a world government such as the one the World Federalists request would be a "wild leap" which might destroy the little international cooperation we now have, John H. Mansfield '50, said last night in defense of the United Nations. He spoke in a debate between two members of the Harvard World Federalists and two representatives of the Harvard UN Council...
...queries: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" To him, by a frisking clown, is tossed some of Shakespeare's tersest wisdom: "There is no darkness but ignorance." And nowhere more than in Twelfth Night can a lovely moment suddenly leap out of the crudest horseplay...