Word: leape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harpers Ferry, W. Va., a visionary or a madman? Russell Banks frames this question in fictional form, a furious, sprawling drama narrated by Brown's real-life son Owen. The result is a historical novel that is not simply a period piece or a pedantic tract but an imaginative leap...
During her middle school days in Glover, Vt., she always loved traveling to arch-rival Barton's larger facility, a giant leap up from Glover's tiny gym, a converted town hall...
...depending not solely on science or on faith but on a combination of the two. He isn't more powerful than a locomotive or able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, yet he is fighting a noble struggle against this neurological version of kryptonite. Superman would be proud...
...once dreamed of taming the Yangtze, China's longest river, whose floodwaters have claimed the lives of millions. Officials expect this $24 billion dam to corral the river, giving their nation a great leap forward as it generates electricity for China's burgeoning cities and makes the river more navigable. But as with other great projects, there is controversy. Some see it as a disaster because it will endanger animal species, submerge ancient temples and drive 1.2 million people from their homes...
...macaroni on the floor, in millions of bits, none of it drying worth a damn. The Chief was called in. The Chief arrived. Long trip, cleanup at the hotel, dinner, back to the macaroni factory. All night long, The Chief paced, The Chief thought, The Chief would suddenly leap up and march off down the corridor. By dawn The Chief had a plan: he started with a 48-hour drying time and continued to shorten it until it reached the minimum at which macaroni dried satisfactorily. "We ruined a lot of macaroni," reported one of his associates...