Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will emphasize efforts to design an American satellite killer to defend against the Soviet version. In September the Defense Department quietly awarded the $58.7 million contract for its own ASAT program to the Vought Corp. of Dallas. The U.S. plan is to leap frog the relatively crude Soviet ASAT technology and put into space by the mid-1980s hunter-killer satellites armed with lasers that could vaporize metal in 20 billionths of a second...
...expect your heart to leap into your throat at this Dracula. More likely, it will sink into another corner of sour anatomy. You would never hear your heart pounding anyway. Even if there were an ominous moment, your heartbeat would be blared out by cliched music of the horror-movie ilk. Every potentially scary minute is ruined, and by the third or fourth refrain the music is not even campy enough to be funny...
...rule was a "pain in the ass" for Joe. "It was something I was prepared for--provided the freshman program was at least competitive--and it wasn't. I am no better now than I was when I left high school, and I should be a quantum leap better...
Sportswriters spring to cover player-salary stories because those stories are unprecedented and sensational. They sell papers. Club owners then leap in with calculated news leaks and bleatings of poverty. In a few months we may read reams about Johnny Bench's salary demands and nothing about the Cincinnati Reds' operating profits. The Bench story will be simple and direct. The Reds' ledgers, if they were available, would probably make sense mostly to C.P.A.s. News judgment, not corruption, is at issue. The Bench negotiation is news...
Silverman lavishes care and energy on casting his characters. Watching tests, he will say, "I hate her, she's terrible. Roll ?next, next!" Or he will leap from his chair and shout, "That's her!" In his eyes, characters do not even have to be human. He will spend just as much time listening to a shark's voice for a children's cartoon as he will in discussing stars for a big-budget show in prime time...