Word: leapingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...safety, who missed all of last season due to a back injury but didn’t lose the leap that has made him so effective, blocked two tries at Bucknell in the Big Red’s season opener before adding another last weekend against Towson...
...when a law stipulated that a Black person shopping in a White store must have their merchandise handed out to them through a window, one local activist bought a Land Rover and insisted on driving it through the window, legally destroying a wall of the store and making a leap for the civil rights movement. This last example elicited an appreciative laugh from the small crowd...
...helped pioneer the new/old movement. As he says in the exhibition catalog, "When we were young we didn't do paintings. We just looked at rock paintings that our fathers did." "Crossing Country" charts this generational shift, which suggests not so much a radical departure as an extraordinary leap of faith...
...could only go through the ducts and leap out onstage in a cape?that's my dream." RALPH NADER, U.S. third-party presidential candidate, on his absence from the presidential debates...
...well as promising more services to communities on the edge, Latham expects local people to manage them. He tried that approach when he was mayor of Liverpool, in western Sydney, calling residents' groups "precinct committees"; they quickly ran out of steam. On a national scale, it's a giant leap to think government "can live on the edge of politics" and be radically pragmatic. Is that really what the iconoclast is planning? It's already happening in the suburbs, argues Latham, in schools, child-care centers and sports clubs. Governments should enable outsiders to get on with running things themselves...