Word: gallop
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...along with those advantages come significant snags that many lenders neglect to advertise. The vast majority of home-equity loans are tied to fluctuations in the prime lending rate, now 8.25%, and can vary enormously in cost as that rate changes. If the prime were to gallop from 8% to 20.5%, as it did between 1978 and 1981, someone now paying 9.75% on a home-equity loan might suddenly have to pay 22.25%. Such a whopping increase is possible because many equity loans lack the so-called caps common to ordinary variable- rate mortgages, which limit interest-rate hikes...
...Jacinto, Comanche raids, cattle drives, oil, religion, high school football, superpatriotism and real estate dodges. Much of this is fascinating, but it is propelled by a strange device: Michener imagines a committee appointed by a Texas Governor to investigate the state's history. Every time the story begins to gallop, accounts of the get-togethers slow the narrative to a plod. Even in Super-America, apparently, the only dependable result of committee meetings is ennui...
Senior fullback Robert Santiago, who used his breakaway speed to gallop to the Ivy League rushing title last season, has sorely missed last year's powerful offensive line and its leader, huge tackle Roger Caron who now bowls defensive linemen over for the Indianapolis Colts...
...restless body, which never spared itself in sport or danger, was destined to give him one last proud gallop at the end." That fugitive entry from F. Scott Fitzgerald's notebooks characterized his fellow Princetonian Hobey Baker, a man who seemed to have been written rather than born. He was blond, handsome, wealthy, the ultimate preppy more than two generations before the word was coined. In his college days (circa 1912) he led Princeton's football and hockey teams, dazzled classmates and debutantes, then when war came impulsively joined the celebrated flyers of the Lafayette Escadrille. When a headline later...
...have the wildest visions," he noted, having confessed the secret of how beautiful war can seem in the stops between its terrors: "The circular trembling aperture of the French and Belgian searchlights, like a transcendental airplane . . . the amazing apocalyptic sound of the giant cannon . . . A rider at full gallop in the dark . . . Poor pig that I am, I can only live in dreams." War went beyond art and burned out his fantasies. What it left behind was a hard, copious ash of realism, and an unassuageable will to describe what it was to be not just a German...