Word: leapingly
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...thus with a more personal touch that I find his parallel to be misinformed and unhelpful. Yiddish is undoubtedly recognized as an official language, spoken primarily by Jews for centuries. To assert that Ebonics is as widely accepted as an official language among African-Americans is a leap that one should be wary to make, regardless of what Vaux has to say in defense of its validity. The debate over Ebonics remains decidedly that—the assertion that Ebonics holds strong official status among African-Americans remains seriously in question. I have no doubt that Vaux seeks to strip...
...tide began to turn when BC, ahead by six, gained the ball on a defensive rebound and seemed headed for an easy fast break with a long pass over midcourt. But a giant leap by 5’11 Harvey blocked the ball’s intended path, and Harvey hustled upcourt and dished to captain Brady Merchant for an open three that cut the deficit...
...DENG XIAOPING The leader of 1 billion Chinese launched his Great Leap Outward--a staggeringly ambitious attempt to modernize China and make it a world power--in 1978, a move that made him POY. In 1985 TIME named him again, saying his reforms had "changed the daily lives of his nation's citizens to a greater extent than any other world leader." Indeed, wrote TIME, his blend of state ownership and private property, of central planning and competitive markets, of political dictatorship and limited economic and cultural freedom, holds "promise for changing the course of history...
Here the film, written with unforced ease by Jeff Nathanson and directed in the same graceful spirit by Spielberg, makes its largest fictional leap; it conflates several FBI pursuers into one. But that's more than all right, because Carl Hanratty is wonderfully played by Tom Hanks. He wears half-horn-rims and a dorky little hat, speaks in a grating Boston accent and tends to spend his Christmas Eves at the office eating Chinese takeout and obsessing about Abagnale. It's a delicious comic portrayal, though not more so than Leonardo DiCaprio's charming impersonation of Abagnale, which...
...turning point came when BC, ahead by six, gained the ball on a defensive rebound and seemed headed for easy fast break points with a long pass over center court. But a giant leap by 5’11 Harvey blocked the ball’s intended path, and Harvey hustled upcourt and dished to captain Brady Merchant for an open three that cut the deficit...