Word: leape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day. I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours a ..."). Could fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazettes there might not be any Harry Levin...
...like a transparent purple robe trailed across a floor." Because he still lives as a glitch in the cosmos, Pilgermann can play telescopic tricks with space and time. He remembers the rituals of Passover, the precautionary striking of the side posts and lintels of Jewish dwellings, and makes a leap: "The spattering drops of blood fan slowly, slowly out out, out, the drops of blood become the stars. Far and frozen the luminous drops of burning blood, far and frozen, drifting ever wider wider, wider...
Harvard had a one two finish in the long jump when senior Jimmy Johnson won the event with a leap of 23-ft., 9-in., and Co-Captain Gus Udo finished right behind him. For an encore Udo took the triple jump, with teammates Mark Henry and Shown Hall finishing third and fourth respectively...
...uninterrupted flow, could cast the spell that moves Kay through time. But the breaks for set and costume changes necessary to bring the action up to--and back from 1938 ruin the transition between Kay's states of perception. As a result, Act II appears to be a mere leap in chronology rather than, as the author intended, a transformation of consciousness that alters Kay's understanding when she returns to her birthday party in the last...
Farmers need seasons. In a lovely, squat little verse to the month of March, A.E. Housman wrote: "So braver notes the stormcock sings/ To start the rusted wheel of things,/ And brutes in field and brutes in pen/ Leap that the world goes round again...