Word: leap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tempers, compulsions, tears and laughter of young children? Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Joshua Sparrow, a child psychiatrist, have come up with the term touchpoints in a new book to describe the bursts of inexplicable behavior that seem to grip young children just before they make a developmental leap. A child just about to walk, for instance, might be restless at night, or cranky for days, until the afternoon she masters her first shaky trip across the carpet. Or a three-year-old struggling to acquire his language skills might have daily meltdowns until he can make himself understood verbally...
...It’s completely antithetical to progress, because they want us to turn back the clock to what Riverside used to be,” McCready says. “They’ve made the leap that any development in Riverside is unacceptable...
...Thursday by the Justice Department, represents the starkest warning yet of a post-September 11th follow-up terrorist attack. Despite the non-specific nature of the FBI?s message, it was designed to make Americans sit up and take notice. And sit up we did: Newspapers were quick to leap on the panic bandwagon: RED ALERT, screamed the New York Post. TERRORIST ATTACKS IMMINENT, blared the Washington Post. Any latent fears were further fanned by the announcement Friday morning that an employee of NBC News in New York had tested positive for cutaneous anthrax...
...Virgin Update: C. Alan Elliot ’04 made the leap from Never Been Kissed to Deep Impact last weekend…Kim S. Kilpatrick ’05 finally popped her cherry, lubricated by about a quart of Everclear punch. God, how we wish that was only a metaphor?...
...richer countries tend to be more secular only because they can entertain illusions of total security and complacency that the rest of the world knows are delusional. Smart people aren’t being more rational or intelligent by adhering to atheism. They’ve just chosen one leap of faith over another. And yet many of us have not enough perspective on our own life nor objectivity in our thinking to acknowledge that, however you live, it makes more sense to work off of a tried model than make everything up for the first time...