Word: leapings
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...took a springy leap of the imagination on the part of Rogers and other Labour masterminds to see their former member as President. But Labour was tired of its minor role in politics. Says Rogers: "The idea was to get a woman of such quality -- her strength challenged the status...
...Functional" is one of Feldman's favorite words. He uses it when he wants to make a leap from moral and emotional positions to what he considers practical and defensible ones...
Feldman respects moral stands, but chooses, his own strategies very carefully intent on a means that will satisfy long-term ends. "I don't leap up and raise my arms and scream and yell a lot," he explains...
...Buell seems willing to leap into the administrative fray. He notes that his newcomer status may both help and hurt him. "I have more to learn in the way of history, so that's a disadvantage," Buell says. "On the other hand, by not being bound so much to history, I may at times see things in usefully different ways...
...come the nagging feeling that this might not be all there is. By then, of course, the flexibility to tolerate a big lug leaving his dirty socks on the floor and the luxury of having time to find one are both in short supply. It takes a tiny leap for those accustomed to satisfying every whim to see a baby as one more choice. It is a way to turn a life-style into a life in nine months...