Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, 16 hours a day, I will finish the readihg by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for 17 hours..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levins...
...behind for long. Ron Chambers, an eventual triple winner in the long and triple jumps and the 60-yd. dash, took the long jump event with a personal best of 24' 9". He was followed closely by Huskie freshman standout Ricky Thompson, who hauled in second place with a leap of 24' 4 1/2." Harvard jumper Sola Mahoney tried his best, surpassed that, but still found himself in third place with a new personal best...
...history of celebrity than to that of power; 3) magnificent failure-Imre Nagy, for example, in 1956 tried to withdraw Hungary from the Warsaw Pact and then discovered the brutal insistence of things in the Soviet tanks that arrived to iron out his impulse; 4) the satanic leap-what inspiration instructed Hitler that he might conquer Europe and destroy 6 million Jews...
...Egyptian was led to his historic leap of imagination. It represented such a total change in Arab behavior that at first no one believed that Sadat meant what he said. In a speech on Nov. 9 to the Egyptian parliament, Sadat declared: "There is no time to lose. I am ready to go to the ends of the earth if that will save one of my soldiers, one of my officers, from being scratched. I am ready to go to their house, to the Knesset, to discuss peace with the Israeli leaders...
...Neill Chaplin, who like his sister was disinherited-she because of her marriage to Charlie Chaplin, a man more than twice her age, he because of what his father described as the "purposelessness" of his life, which included bouts with alcoholism and two narcotics arrests; in a leap from a fourth-floor window on June 22; in Brooklyn...