Word: leapings
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...Revolution and Peace is a fascinating exception. The papers, some of which were captured from Chinese Communist junks off the South China coast, some probably filched by Chinese Nationalist spies, cover most of 1961-a year when Red China was nursing bruised shins from the disastrous "Great Leap Forward." They reflect nagging discontent in army and peasant ranks, as well as the age-old Chinese belief in the efficacy of numerals as a cure-all for despair. Excerpts...
...rate of 13% annually, Rumania runs well ahead of the others, and even when measured by the solid standard of gross national product, it ranks fourth of seven: behind East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland, but ahead of Yugoslavia, Hungary and Bulgaria. In order to keep hopping on its canny leap forward, Ceausescu's regime relies on an abundance of natural resources-oil and timber, coal and untapped rural labor reserves. In other European countries, the supply of working men and women dwindles inevitably in inverse proportion to the desire for luxury goods. "Baby or car?" asks the Hungarian young...
Pardee made his winning jump on his second try at the height, and just missed in his second attempt at 6 ft., 11 in, when his trailing leg brushed the crossbar. Pardee also scored a surprise second in the broad jump with a 23 ft., 6 1/2 in. leap, 2 1/2 in. short of the winning jump by Navy's Tom Palkie...
...secretary instead. M'Naghten was so clearly out of his mind, said Kaufman, that his judges found him not guilty on the enlightened theory that his delusion of persecution by Peel had caused the act. The law's attitude toward insanity seemed to have taken an impressive leap forward...
...square miles of permafrost, they were a depleted and dying culture, helplessly locked in old patterns, too weak to accommodate new. That year Canada's conscience underwrote a radical new experiment to save the Eskimos by making them self-sufficient. Edith Iglauer's book tells of the leap, "literally for their lives," into the modern world...