Word: leapings
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...steal down to the dining hall. There, I eat as fast as I can so that I can hurry back upstairs and start staring, again. I stare all day long. Every once in a while, though, my staring is interrupted and then, in a fit of inspiration, my hands leap to the keyboard, and I type. This lasts for a few minutes. When I'm done, for a moment, there is a feeling. I won't call it satisfaction, but its is something vaguely like that. Then the feeling passes, and I begin staring again...
...alley, a white jeep with smoky windows rumbles by, and the MS boys leap up. The 18 have been driving around the neighborhood in a similar white jeep, smashing in doors of MS houses and spraying everybody inside, grandmothers and children, with Uzis. Isidra Benegas, the mother of the crackhead, curses, "These deportees from the U.S. are to blame. They've brought the crack and the killing." A flicker of guilt crosses Cesar's face. He belonged to an MS chapter in Eagle Pass, Texas, before he was deported back to Honduras. "It's either live in the gang...
...small step for Neil Rose, but it was one giant leap for Crimson football...
...question of beauty, asked differently, is about the moment at which art reaches such a high point of perfection that it retreats again into the inimitable, the unconstructable, the unconscious. The difference between impeccable grooming and beauty is the same leap between high intelligence and genius, a trained dancer and a kid with rhythm, or academic fluency and native fluency in language...
...troops in Haiti--a scant 34 soldiers by the Pentagon's last count. We don't need to persuade Europe "to put troops on the ground" in Kosovo because almost 85% of the soldiers there now are from Europe. When bombing broke out in Bosnia, Bush did not leap to support it, as he claimed, but said at the time he was "praying," before eventually lending an equivocal voice. He called Nigeria an important "continent." And he may have created a minor international incident by accusing former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin of pocketing IMF loans, without any solid evidence...