Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fullback Lewis sprang to his feet, dashed onto the field at just the right moment and brought Halfback Moegle down with a tooth-rattling tackle...
...fire three bursts: one to bring his chief interrogator, whom he hated, into the room; the second to kill him; and the third into his own mouth, to end his life. Before he could get the gun to work, a guard heard him fumbling with the safety and sprang on him, knocking him down. "There is a brave man," said General Dean when he saw the guard later...
...linemen-roaring another guttural "Y-A-A-A-A-H-H-R-R-R"*-charged like bulls into a row of freshman defenders, who were specially padded, rather like picadors' horses, to withstand the shock. In the same split-second instant, a long-legged halfback named John Lattner sprang from his crouch, took the deft hand-off of the ball from his quarterback, and cracked through the right side of the line with the power of a runaway steer...
...engineer named Webster Plass (who died last year) and his widow Margaret. Africanist William Fagg supplied a foreword to the exhibition catalogue that could also be taken as a friendly warning to visitors. To see the show clearly, said Fagg, it is necessary to forget all about naturalism, which sprang from Greek art and survived in the photographic age. "African art is an art not of analysis but of synthesis: the artist does not begin from the natural form of, say, the human body ... He begins from a germinal concept which grows into the finished work, developing, so to speak...
Ground was broken in the spring of 1950; target date was 1955. Every four miles along the route, a camp sprang up to house 60,000 prisoners, redeeming themselves through "socialist labor," i.e., as slaves...