Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accepting money from the KTA, with such obvious links to the corrupt and repressive Park regime, the University exhibits a drastic leap of faith. The acceptance of the grant should not be construed as an acceptance on the University's part of the policies of the Korean regime, nor should the grant create any pressure on members of the East Asian Research Center to alter their attitudes toward Korea. The money, detached from any outside pressures, could be a meaningful contribution to the furtherance of the Center's research, despite the dubious nature of its source...
...Thousands of question marks, tiny little things, filled out into a cloud over my head. The cloud grew darker and darker until it produced a rumble and then a flash. I had it! A clever ruse to get her out of the room while I practiced my six-story leap into a waiting convertible. In a few short hours I'd be home, where my only thoughts of sex came when my mother boiled zucchini...
...both conventional Victorian morality and the urgings of the heart. But what is poor Frederic to do? Given a half-deaf nursemaid who apprentices him to a pirate instead of a pilot until he is 21 years of age and a birthday which falls with inconvenient quadrennial regularity on Leap Day, he acts as any Gilbert and Sullivan character worth his salt is bound to: he follows every absurd proposition out to its invariably illogical conclusion...
...selling price of a barrel of crude will buy as large a quantity of Western imports as it did in, say, early 1974. To oil consumers that argument seems extremely specious: the early 1974 terms of trade were achieved after a 400% jump in oil prices, and that leap caused no small part of the Western inflation that OPEC complains about. Even so, John Lichtblau director of the U.S. Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, contends that a 3% to 7.5% rise in oil prices would give OPEC members as much import-purchasing power as they have ever had. OPEC statisticians...
...audience, it enjoyed a Brahms and Stravinsky program and a sound of startling clarity and brightness that seemed to leap off the stage. The music did not have the warm mellowness of venerable Carnegie Hall, nor did it seem to have enough bass on the left side of the main floor. But other conductors and orchestras will provide the ultimate test of those qualities: the cerebral Boulez is not a man for lush sonorities, and the Philharmonic still sounds brasher than most, undoubtedly because of their struggle in the old hall...