Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Dulles sprang the West's next procedural maneuver-to put over discussion of the Chinese issue until later, in a closed meeting, i.e., one not followed by briefings for newsmen...
...some of its more efficient mills and keeping the less efficient and 2) keeping six mills that averaged about 60 looms apiece, necessitating six resident managers, six maintenance crews, six tax bills, etc., to turn out as much as one of the mills to be closed. Stockholders' committees sprang up, and at least one aimed to take over the management itself...
...nonmembership in a union. The union shop, testified Santa Fe's Gurley, "does violence to my very deep-seated beliefs in personal liberty, freedom of choice, and the rights and dignity of the individual." In answer to union arguments, which implied that benefits such as seniority rights sprang from labor contracts, Gurley pointed out that the Santa Fe has had its own provisions for seniority since...
...very name: Lucasta is a name which, despite its original connotation of chastity in Lovelace's poem, has taken on tawdrier associations in our own time (Anna Lucasta) and can therefore be taken to symbolize the fallen Magdalene. On the other hand, the Western legends which sprang up about the absolved Magdalene almost invariably linked her with angels (in the art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance she is depicted as receiving the sacraments at the hands of angels, as being borne up to heaven by angels, etc.) But the Magdalene symbolism in The Confidential Clerk is visual...
Apparently it affected his judgment. For he sprang into print with a series in Borba, the party newspaper. Djilas gave it as his personal opinion that the Yugoslav Communist Party's methods were outmoded. Compulsory "cell" meetings through which leaders exercised guidance over lesser comrades were "sterile." The "churchlike" insistence on dogma had become unnecessary...