Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats were in power and again after the Republicans took over. The Post first criticized Nixon when he was helping to unmask Traitor Alger Hiss. Publisher Graham contends that "all men of good will," including the men of the Post, were embarrassed by the Hiss case. The paper sprang to Hiss's defense, switched later when the evidence piled up against him. In the Post's more recent anti-Nixon efforts, largely aimed at Nixon's use of the subversion issue as a political weapon, Graham has had to restrain Herblock. In his Republican gallery...
Typical of today's company towns is New Cuyama, a California community that sprang up from the sagebrush after Richfield Oil Corp. made the state's biggest petroleum strike of the decade in a barren desert valley southwest of Bakersfield eight years ago. Determined to create a community that would match its underground wealth, Richfield sold 201 model homes at cost to employees, put up a handsome shopping center and leased it to independent merchants. The company also provided a $75,000 community hall, a $250,000 motel-restaurant, a $20,000 playground, plus land...
...Socialist in last January's elections. As a Deputy, Dassault proposed to the National Assembly that he solve France's critical housing shortage by mass-producing prefabricated, low-cost ($5,000) homes, to be financed with 80% mortgage loans from the government. Though "Maisons Dassault" settlements sprang up in his own constituency, French bureaucracy soon blocked his project...
...Communists sprang up from their benches with a roar. Some leaped to the tribune, others charged across the Chamber floor at the Poujadist benches. In seconds the floor was a melee of pushing, shouting, punching Deputies. Stools flew overhead, Deputies tore lids off desks to use as weapons. Suddenly, three shots rang out. There in the second-tier gallery was a pale, gaunt young man, waving a nickel-plated pistol and shouting, "Vive Poujade!" The combatants froze into startled silence as spectators grappled with him. A woman screamed and fainted with a clatter among the gallery chairs...
...following, and a label: abstract expressionism. Like most labels, this one has proved inadequate. It is used loosely to suggest merely the expression of strong feeling without any reference to objective reality. Young idealists in search of an ideal, and middle-aged casuists in search of a cause, alike sprang to the defense of abstract expressionism almost before it began to be attacked. And it was attacked, inevitably, for to believers in the classical concepts of beauty and truth to nature, it was an insult. This gave the advance guard a stimulating sense of unity and a debilitating sense...