Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, 16 hours a day, I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for 17 hours..."). Cold 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 gazelles there might not be any Harry Levins...
...million gal.) each, some of the most interesting wines are being made by comparatively small estates that have started up in the past two decades. They are owned by engineers and airline pilots, big businessmen and corporations. Most of the bottles shipped by such wineries as Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Chappellet, Santa Ynez, Burgess, Joseph Swan, Sanford & Benedict, J. Lohr, Keenan, Heitz and Chateau St. Jean are instant sellouts-often at higher prices than comparable French, Italian or German vintages. A tasting...
...leap of the imagination can substantiate charges by Tass, the Soviet press agency, that the presence of 50,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan is a response to American "cold war" policies. Whether Soviet leaders decided to move in on Afghanistan because they feared the Moslem rebellion there would spread to the large Moslem minority in the Soviet Union, or whether the intervention is the first step in Soviet expansionary designs on the Middle East, the act shows the bankruptcy of Soviet claims to be the Third World's benefactor...