Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needs for aluminum. Huge oil refineries on Curaçao and Aruba processed 72% of the crude produced in Venezuela. With this new prosperity, the Negroes, East Indians, Hindus and expatriate Netherlanders in the colonies (230,000 in Surinam, 174,000 on the islands) developed political ambitions. Political parties sprang up at war's end to demand more autonomy for the territories. In 1948 their leaders began to shuttle across the ocean for conferences at The Hague. But none demanded full independence; the territories were well satisfied with last week's statute that kept them an integral part...
...well worth seizing. The 59-year-old I.C.A. has 117 million members, more than 12 million in North and South America. Some of its greatest growth took place in postwar periods of inflation and food shortages, when new cooperative societies sprang up all over Europe. The societies have brought in large numbers of farmers and cooperative-minded consumers, just the people the Communists would like to use in their propaganda efforts...
Last week Hilton sprang his big surprise. By matching Zeckendorf's price, he had won over the Statler family and bought their 753,000 shares (49% of the total) for $37.6 million. Stockholders owning the remaining 798,226 shares got the same offer of $50 a share...
Geneviéve de Galard had flown to Dienbienphu many times before by moonlight (the planes would not tempt Communist fire by day), but this time the C-47 sprang an oil leak and could not be repaired until morning. Promptly at dawn the Communists knocked the C-47 °ut of the war, and Nurse de Galard was marooned with the garrison. "The boys have invited me to stay for the siege," she radioed her mother...
...terrorists were spilling over the border into Tanganyika Territory. Last week one of Tom's ebony tribesmen had seen something moving among his coffee trees and, thinking it was a mere lion, he had charged it with his spear. Instead of a lion, a lion-man sprang out and pointed a pistol at the charging Chagga. The pistol misfired, and the Chagga's spear drove through a Mau Mau terrorist, whose hair was plastered with red clay into the shape of a lion's mane...