Word: spawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They call us the Silent Generation," he said with a sneer. "The hydramatic men. We don't speak, we don't act, we don't create." He paused. "We are the spawn of a depression decade; we were old in the cradle...
...must humanity spawn so many little Talmadges-and so few great Kings...
...sing of arms and the man," wrote Virgil rather pointedly in The Aeneid. It remained for World War II to spawn the bards of basic training camps, staging areas, supply depots and paper-shuffling rear echelons. These latter-day laureates all agree that war gets funnier and funnier in direct proportion to its distance from the firing line, and sometimes prove it, e.g., See Here, Private Hargrove, Mister Roberts, No Time for Sergeants. Though it works harder for its laughs and gets fewer of them, Don't Go Near the Water may enjoy a like success. A Book...
Pilots of sound mind normally give tornadoes plenty of airspace. The tall clouds that spawn twisters are boiling with turbulence, and the black funnels themselves can tear an airplane to shreds. Pilot James M. Cook, 6 ft. 3 in. and slow-spoken, is thoroughly sane, but whenever a threatening cloud shows its face in the Middle West, he hops into his war-surplus Mustang at Kansas City and takes the cloud's pulse and temperature, even if it is crawling with vicious twisters...
...beauty of chemical treatment for lampreys is that it will kill five hatches at once The adults spend only one year in the lakes returning to the streams to spawn and die. If the poison were used liberally for two years in succession, it might make Great Lakes lampreys as scarce as bison...