Word: leapings
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...tantalized by the idea (probably correct, I think) that the ugliness of Vietnam was unique for those who fought it. The answer (if there is one) to the question of what made Vietnam different may not be answerable in a work of non-fiction; perhaps it requires a leap of imagination not within the reach of the historian or journalist. This book, alas, does not even...
...long jump. Gus Udo delivered a leap only one inch less than last summer's 24 feet. 10 inch flight at the British nationals. Udo now stands closer to Harvard's oldest track and field record--25 feet, 3 inches set 60 years ago in a world record jump by Edward Gourdin--than anyone has in years...
Like Deputy Chairman Deng Xiaoping, who now guides China, Huang ended up on Mao's purge list. He was dismissed as Chief of Staff of the Peoples Liberation Army in 1959 for opening criticizing the shortcomings of Mao's Great Leap Forward. Not until Mao died was Huang readmitted to a party position...
...long corridors, dimly lit by the grey light sifting in through high windows, toward classrooms and small studies. There was mahogany and cracked, reddish leather. The floor creaked grandly as we moved slowly around corners, fully expecting the current generation of the hereditary janitor class of the realm to leap out from a closet and drive us off with flailing push brooms. Every room seemed to have a fireplace, and we wondered what it would have been like to fall asleep in an over-stuffed armchair, Milton on your lap and a monogrammed tie around your neck. We were wearing...
...ballet, elevation means the height of a dancer's leap and seeming suspension in the air. In a musical comedy, elevation could mean a playgoer's inner leap for joy while suspended in an evening of sheer pleasure. Except for Lauren Bacall, Woman of the Year is a show of hazardously low elevation...