Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about 10 p.m. I announced that the boy was rapidly dying. The President sprang from his chair and took his dying son in his arms, shouting hysterically into his ears that he would soon join him in the great beyond, and requesting that young Calvin so inform his grandmother (the mother of the President). A medallion of the grandmother was also placed in the hands of the dying boy . . . The boy died...
...Beginning was the Woman. Goddess of All Things," she rose naked out of Chaos, danced so wildly that great wind sprang up. The goddess caressed the wind and it became a great serpent which coiled itself lustfully around her. The goddess became pregnant, assumed a dove's form laid "the Universal Egg." Out of the Egg tumbled all things that exist sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs and living creatures." Swollen with pride the serpent declared himself "the author ot tne universe," which made the goddess so angry that she kicked...
...sometimes explained in terms of the personalities of Republican congressional leaders, sometimes as a consequence of the irresponsibility bred by 20 years in opposition. Neither explanation is entirely adequate. The Republican Party is suffering from a lack of confidence in the theories and principles from which it sprang. It was the party of dynamic capitalism, of manufacturers and independent farmers as opposed to plantation owners, traders and the urban masses. It is a fascinating historical curiosity that in the era of capitalism's greatest practical success (1910-55) it suffered a devastating loss of theoretical prestige. This accounts...
...about nine months ago soon after the arrival of gentle Francis Lacoste to succeed General Augustin Guillaume as Resident General. To suspicious French colons, Lacoste, after hard-boiled General Guillaume, smelled of negotiation and compromise, and they denounced the national government's policy as "treason." Clandestine French organizations sprang up, calling themselves "The White Hand," and "Agir" (to act). They were manned by hired killers imported from France, professional thugs, sometimes ex-policemen. Frenchmen who advocated moderation and negotiation began to receive threatening letters ("Pig. you have sold out to the rats. Your days are numbered...
GATT was designed to bring order out of a chaotic mass of trade pacts that sprang up after the U.S. Congress passed the first Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act in 1934. Under that act, the U.S. signed bilateral tariff agreements with France, Great Britain, Belgium and 26 other nations. As each of these nations signed similar agreements with dozens of other countries, a tangled net of concessions, quota restrictions, special licenses, etc. was created. To simplify matters, the U.S. helped sponsor a meeting of interested nations after World War II to write a single, broad General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...