Word: leape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...packed my bags and made the great leap across the river to Boston University this fall," Thomson said yesterday...
...when the Lion quarterback made a final leap for the goal line, the 6-ft. 2-in, 203 lb. Harvard linebacker, who had come all the way from the middle of the field to the corner flag--shedding blockers along the way--closed the door...
...group sex. It has been said that he wanted to deride pornomania, that he gave an accurate reading of it (one reduced to its bare bones), and that he has succeeded since these bones, clinging to one another in a puzzling geometrical arrangement, suddenly−and eerily−leap into the eye of the beholder like a modern dance of death with gamboling, spawning skeletons...
...machine IBM showed off last week has important technical advances. "The PC AT represents a leap in technology," says Robert Fertig, president of Enterprise Information Systems, a Connecticut research firm. "This is a real breakthrough." At the computer's heart is a new microprocessor called the 80286, made by Intel and licensed to IBM for manufacture. It handles information two to three times faster than the older design used in the PC and PC XT. The new chip enables the machine to run complicated programs that previously could work only on larger minicomputers. The Intel 80286 also makes...
...China's success is the nationwide system of part-time sports academies that have sprung up in recent years to bring along promising athletes. Among those trained at such schools is High Jumper Zhu Jianhua, 21, who took the bronze with a leap of 7 ft. 7 in. But perhaps most important, China decided it wanted to win. In place of the political sports slogan of the Mao Tse-tung era, "Friendship first, competition second," came a cross-court smash of a rallying cry: "Break out of Asia and advance on the world...