Word: leapings
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...obliged to look harder at the issues that divide Christians. "For the bone that sticks in the Protestant throat," he said, "is Scripture v. dogma, the original message of salvation from the mouth of God and the promulgation of infallible propositions. It is this passage, this seemingly lyric leap from Scripture to dogma, and from dogma to dogma, that scandalizes the Protestant theologian...
...embarrass the prissy Richwick with her uninhibited advances (in a satirical switch, Vercors has Richwick study Freud in order to give Sylva some inhibitions). But the major gap that separates human from animal mentality is man's conscious awareness of his own existence. Eventually, Sylva makes the leap, and from the frightening moment when she discovers herself as an individual entity separate from her environment, Sylva cannot turn back; she is, as it were, hooked by humanity...
...Bjorklund admits that his scheme to inoculate human patients with the vaccine at this time is a venturesome undertaking. But he explains that his work is at a pinnacle and he has "the courage to take a leap." Some of his colleagues, including Dr. Sven Gard, professor of virology at Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute, fear that he may be leaping too far too fast. In the conglomeration of materials in the Bjorklund vaccine, they argue, there may well be lurking some ingredients that can produce harmful side effects, even disease...
...will also be popular abroad. The rest of the world can scarcely be expected to leap to the aid of a nation whose brutal treatment of Angola is an international scandal. With Portugal's repression in mind, no decent person will step forward to say what is, after all, the truth: that Goa is not Angola...
...growing season, the end of the opportunity to steal food from fields and gardens, or even of scrounging the hills for edible leaves and roots. Winter also brings the need for warm clothes and warming fires. But as Red China enters its fourth winter since the Great Leap Forward, clothing and fuel are in nearly as short supply as food...