Word: leape
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DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL Larry Agran thought he could leap from the office of mayor to the Oval Office--if only given the chance to present himself and his ideas to the American people...
...Leap Year Jam was the second annual concert to bring together Harvard-Radcliffe's three co-ed a cappella groups, the Veritones, Call-backs and Opportunes...
...Clark's youth, glistening 27-kg (60-lb.) silver Chinooks and red-fleshed sockeyes would leap into the nets. The commercial salmon season was 137 days long, and a day's catch would often exceed a ton. But now the sockeyes have vanished and the silver Chinooks have dwindled. The season is one-third as long, and Clark and his two sons are lucky if they catch 136 kg (300 lbs.) each day. Soon they may have to quit the business altogether because of a broad effort to rebuild the salmon populations on the lower Columbia and its main tributary...
Sticking a ski pole into the ground for leverage and vaulting a couple of meters forward to the accompaniment of rock music from a boom box. Wiggling back and forth on skis around a series of powdery bumps, periodically climbing these hillocks to leap off, flinging one's limbs spread eagle for a nanosecond or thrusting one's hindquarters left and right during a fleeting free fall. Skating at breakneck pace in a roller-derby throng around the perimeter of a hockey-size rink. Scuttling along a sheet of ice, brushing away bumps with a broom to clear the path...
...based economy took a leap forward during the gulf war, which boosted GNP 9.2% last year, the highest growth rate in Latin America. But the gap & between rich and poor only widened: there is little trickle-down to the nearly 40% of the population living below the poverty line. The pinch is hurting the armed forces as well. Though they asked Congress in December for $216 million in health and housing benefits over the next four years, along with a 50% pay raise, the legislature has not responded...