Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Emily's leap of genius was to have the story of Heathcliff and Catherine's blighted love told by Lockwood, a prissy outsider, and by Nelly Dean, the prim housekeeper who had witnessed most of the novel's events. Such narrow-minded story tellers were ill-equipped to understand a raging natural force like Heathcliff, much less to sympathize with his condition. The greater their shock at Heathcliff s behavior, the more they condemned him, the clearer it became that Heathcliff existed on a plane beyond the grasp of normal comprehension. Emily also wisely kept...
Kayali charged to first place in the triple jump with his best leap ever of 48 ft. 3 in. He competed with a fever and Harvard's cryptic coach quipped, "when...
...late 1940s, little oil exploration had been conducted in China. In the '50s, Russian experts helped in tapping several big finds, but in 1960 they pulled out, leaving the barely experienced Chinese on their own. Their departure coincided with the conclusion of Mao's Great Leap Forward, which was intended to initiate the masses into the discipline and skills required in an industrial society. The consequence: a huge stumble backward that hurt China's developing industries. After a few years of respite, Mao's second self-inflicted economic catastrophe, the Cultural Revolution...
Duels at dawn are as familiar as graveside scenes in the rain, and the news that The Duellists is a visually opulent costume drama set in France at the time of he Napoleonic Wars does not make the heart leap...
...said one Midwestern farmer during the early '50s. The prescription for homegrown Reds was McCarthyism, which threatened democracy more than the encapsulated cells of the American Communist Party. In the end, the beleaguered party withered away, stunned by Khrushchev's anti-Stalinism and sadly watching the proletariat leap over the threshold to the middle class. Marxist rhetoric could not compete with the ad-gab of prosperity...