Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of why butterflies are considered beautiful. And his mind is agile. When he discovers that the framework of a crinoline gown in the Kremlin museum contains a tube that used to be filled with honey to catch stray fleas, he reflects on how the flea learned to jump 100 times its own length...
Young Parent can barely wait to break out of Medford, Mass., during the late '50s. Outwardly he appears to have been quite ordinary: an altar boy who liked to plink at bottles with his .22-cal Mossberg. Yet his mind has been jump-started by books, especially Dante's The Divine Comedy. "It was not just the blood and gore," he tells a friendly parish priest, "but that the people in Hell seemed real; the ones in Purgatory and Paradise were wordy and unbelievable...
...Government gave new credence to that view last week, when it reported that U.S. retail sales climbed a meager 0.4% in April, far below the 1%-to-2% gain many economists had expected. The feeble growth would have been weaker but for a jump in car sales that reflected the most generous incentives ever offered by Detroit, including interest-free loans...
...ordinary citizen, a big jump in the unemployment rate seems like bad news. What could possibly be good about the fact that almost 400,000 more people were out of work in April than in the preceding month? After all, that painful increase hurts not only those without jobs and their families, but the malls and supermarkets where they shop as well. Yet when the Government reported that joblessness rose by 0.3% to 5.3% in April, financial insiders ( applauded, the bond market surged while stocks staged a brief but sharp rally, and publications ranging from USA Today to investment-house...
What kind of mother would expect her 15-year-old daughter to jump off a tower while strapped with wings to prove that mankind can fly? What kind of daughter, after being cowed by such a mother, would so quake at the parent- child bond that she would abandon her toddler to relatives and head off to Europe to teach? What kind of child, growing up as the object of battle between such willful women, would prove at once fiercer and more forgiving than either...