Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deny a child the right to a family because the parents are not churchgoers seems to me a giant leap forward to the age of the Spanish Inquisition...
...Army was equally impressive in its first try, however. The cadets won a triple meet over Colgate and Lafayette, 81-40-16. Kevin James of Army set a new meet record in the pole vault with a 15-foot leap...
Long Night. The change represented a new awakening for China. In economic terms, the world's most populous nation has lain asleep for the past dozen years. The long night began in 1958, when Mao launched his ill-fated Great Leap Forward. His nation had barely recovered from that disaster when the nightmare of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution began. Now, Sinologists believe, China may be about to register its first real economic progress since before the Great Leap...
...opera is remarkably powerful. All melody pared to its bare essentials, Janáček'a music illuminates Čapek's bizarre tale with a cold, exciting glare. Characters declaim in energetic syllables that leap from one end of their voices to the other, too tense to lapse into song. The orchestra vibrates with intense color and rhythm, microscopically reflective of each dramatic subtlety...
...last few years, applications for admission to the Medical School have taken a tremendous leap. As the number of applicants has increased so has the number of problems...