Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effortless quality that marks great technique is missing; with few exceptions, the dancers of the company don't finish their movements, are off in their timing by that fraction of a second, fail to spark the pattern with the extra inch of height or breath in a leg or leap...
...read What Really Happened without trying to figure out the answer to the puzzle. What did really happen to those wealthy adolescents that turned them into a massive, collective dropout, that took them off the technocratic track? Some suggestions leap into the mind: dependence upon doting parents, whose goal was to give their golden children everything they hadn't had themselves; disillusionment with the values of a system that forced them to worry about the draft after raising them to think that other people did the dirty work; realization that they couldn't meet the expectations of the adult population...
...conflict over the issues Hofheinz focuses on--guns versus rice, central versus local control, equality of education versus political control over it--grew most extreme during the Great Leap Forward of 1958-59 and the Cultural Revolution of the '60s. These startlingly unstable campaigns delineate a unique element in Mao's leadership. Convinced that China would progress only if the principles of revolution remained vital, he encouraged the Chinese people's awareness of the perpetual struggle between two poles--the revolutionary line and the "capitalist road" or "revisionism." Mao's teachings acted as a fulcrum on which these lines would...
...that is, except Bullard, who beat his man, saved the ball on the endline and crossed to the charging Lohrer. Lohrer drilled the ball home from point blank range at 42:20 and, in the same motion, launched into a joyous victory leap. Across the street at Harvard Stadium, the Columbia flag still hung listlessly at half-mast as the first gun sounded...
...ribbed, however, and the patterned wicker puts more English on the ball than can be found in most freshman college classes. It is as though Nolan Ryan's 101-m.p.h. fastball had suddenly turned into a 150-m.p.h. knuckleball. The players dart to line up the angle, leap for the catch and, elbow locked, sweep the ball back to the wall...