Word: leape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hips, dipping its head and playing air guitar to a variety of tunes. Incarnations of the baby have been seen doing gymnastic jumps, walking in a drunken stupor, smoking and urinating. One version even shows the baby dancing, then getting run over by a car. The baby made the leap from the Internet to television media in FOXs Ally McBeal this past January, taunting the title character at random moments. Viewers can also see the Dancing Baby in a Blockbuster advertisement. The baby has spawned t-shirts, hats and mousepads. From its immaculate conception about two years ago, "Dancing Baby...
...more likely to leap into the law school application process because it occurs in the fall," Curll said...
...establishment of the People's Republic of China, Mao's position was immeasurably strengthened. Despite all that the Chinese people had endured, it seems not to have been too hard for Mao to persuade them of the visionary force and practical need for the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s. In Mao's mind, the intensive marshaling of China's energies would draw manual and mental labor together into a final harmonious synthesis and throw a bridge across the chasm of China's poverty to the promised socialist paradise on the other side...
...established that at least that number died in China during the famine that followed the Great Leap between 1959 and 1961. In the Cultural Revolution that followed only five years later, Mao used the army and the student population against his opponents. Once again millions suffered or perished as Mao combined the ruthlessness of Shang Yang with the absolute confidence of the long-distance swimmer...
...ruled by committee, a "mandate of Heaven" consecrated to the might of the collective, the individual has sometimes been seen as hardly more than a work unit in some impersonal equation. A "small number" were killed, Mao once said of the death of 70,000, and in his Great Leap Forward, at least 20 million more were sacrificed to a leader's theories. In that context, the man before the tank seems almost a counter-Mao, daring to act as the common-man hero tirelessly promoted by propaganda and serving as a rebuke--or asterisk, at least--to the leaders...