Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years to come. Dulles' delicate and difficult job: to build the will to resist without provoking war; to promise protection, yet to avoid tying down U.S. strength; to present to the Communists a front that is both adamant and flexible. Since many of the pressures on Dulles sprang from exaggerated jitters about World War III, his important task was bound to be made easier as the free world absorbs Churchill's wisdom and learns the real meaning of its years of opportunity: relative safety lies in greater anti-Communist strength...
...hearing of the affront to their neighbor, the vintner's friends decided to arouse the town by ringing the bell of St. Martin's Church. Immediately, scores of citizens sprang to arms, started shooting at the scholars with their bows. This brought forth the chancellor of the university to "appease the tumult," but the townsmen started shooting at him, too. The chancellor ordered the bell of St. Mary's to be rung. By nightfall he had an army of archers...
...before quitting the Finance Ministry, Faure had proposed the tax on racehorse sales in favor of wealthy horse owners. Concluded L'Express: "The wall between politics and money is not as solid as one would like." Seated on a brocaded couch, Faure read intently, his face darkening, then sprang to his feet...
Before taking off (in President Coty's official plane), the Premier blandly made one parting gesture calculated to provoke a full-scale battle royal. Summoning his Cabinet, he persuaded them to endorse a new electoral law and then, without any advance warning, sprang it on the scattering Deputies. It calls for abandoning proportional representation, which has helped to perpetuate the splintering of France's parliament into a multitude of bickering factions. Mendès would return to direct vote of Deputies by districts, as it was under the Third Republic...
...Italy, not far from the sacred groves of ancient times, a new and extravagantly profane Hollywood sprang up. In 1954 the Italians produced 152 films, close to two-thirds as many as were made by all the major U.S. studios combined. And if the Italian producers were not too successful in their efforts to imitate Hollywood, the Italian actresses were outstandingly nice to look at. However, two producers who were not trying too hard to make money, Jean Renoir and Renato Castellani, made two of the year's most beautiful color pictures: The Golden Coach and Romeo and Juliet...