Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long quotations from Gardner about mystery writing. These are wise, and written with breathtaking authority. There is also an excellent 29-page bibliography. One suspects that Gardner would disapprove of the rest: the prim prose, the slapdash production (pages are numbered only fitfully; there is one flying leap from 186 to 204), the amateurish illustration. Gardner...
...Pellegrini had an off day in the discus, but still threw the metal Frisbee 159 ft., 11 in. to pace another Crimson sweep. Dave Sullivan hardly soared in his speciality, the high jump, but his 6-ft., 8-in. leap was good for first place on the top of still another Harvard sweep...
...customers' portfolios, instead of stocks. "Some people have bought kilos' worth of diamonds," says Antwerp Diamond Cutter Sylvain Zucker. Disgusted by the speculation, New York's Tiffany & Co. ran a newspaper ad in March telling customers: "Diamonds are too high. We suggest you look before you leap...
...variety of inflation to millions of consumers. Shoppers' beefs will soon get even louder. Last week the Government reported that the February Wholesale Price Index for finished goods, which foreshadows retail prices, jumped at an annual rate of 14%, nearly double the January rise and the biggest monthly leap since November 1974. Food, which did more than anything else to push January consumer-price increases back to a 10% annual rate, propelled the February wholesale surge, climbing 2.9%, the biggest monthly boost in more than three years...
Women have the same rights as men in the Hare Krishna movement. Garuda's wife is a priest and has the same religious powers as any male priest. However, women usually do not leap and jump directly in front of the altar because they may "agitate" the male devotees, Garuda says. Many of the women dance behind the men and watch over their children during the aroti, signifying a somewhat different role, even within the movement...