Word: leape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are known the world over for their ability to prance and dance with haughty grace and to leap like ballet stars. General George Patton was so charmed by their pirouettes that he ordered his troops in Austria to rescue the great snow-white horses from advancing Soviet forces at the close of World War II. Today the Lipizzaners face a new enemy: a deadly virus of the herpes family. The disease has not hit the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, the showcase for the horses, but by the end of last week it had killed seven mares...
Police come charging down their middle in a V. The group is split, running up two different streets. Several more shots are fired. I am toward the back of the group when two cars of plainclothes policemen come roaring up from behind. They leap out of their cars before they have even stopped and start grabbing people...
...other side and take a flying leap over the same fence. A police car turns down the stret right in front of me. I put one hand on the trunk and twist around it, taking off down North Avenue, right next to the park, again...
...only last summer that moderation, pragmatism, flexibility were the words that nearly everyone used in anticipating the Administration's post-Haig approach to foreign policy. Those were the qualities George Shultz was expected to contribute as Reagan's second Secretary of State. But they are scarcely the words that leap to mind today. On issue after issue, Shultz has let others take the lead in defining policy, sometimes joining them in harsh speech, sometimes keeping silent. The result over the past month or so has been an Administration swing to tough talk, especially on El Salvador but on other subjects...
Julieann was the least manageable of Sidney Kraftsow's 70 Brahmans. It was her terrific "craving for citrus fruit," says Kraftsow, that led her to leap over (and even limbo under) 4-ft. barbed-wire fences or bound across her 5-ft.-wide concrete cattle guard. "She was really a menace," he says. Fed up, Kraftsow sold the cow to Hayes for $350, a bargain price...