Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate majority leader in a Republican Administration, the public began to see a new Taft. The nation which had overturned the Fair Deal to elect Dwight Eisenhower was ready to listen, at least with half an ear. There sprang up the hope that Taft and Eisenhower between them would evolve a foreign policy and a policy of national defense, a domestic policy and, indeed, a reconstructed and truly American idealism to which the nation could rally. This hope began to turn Taft into a popular figure. Whatever suffering they brought to him as a man, Taft's last...
Last week, as the Egyptian owners gave renewed signs of canceling her Suez lease, Britain sprang a surprise: a 20-year rental agreement for a new war store just across Egypt's western border. London agreed to pay Libya, the Middle East's newest and poorest kingdom (created by the U.N. out of Mussolini's African empire), a dole of $2,800,000 annually for at least five years for economic development, plus another $7,700,000 annually to balance her budget, in return for the right to base British troops and planes in Libya...
...Paris. On their first morning back in England, Philip donned his clerical disguise. When Penelope raised wondering eyebrows, he confessed: "I can no longer conceal from you that I am a curate ... I have basely deceived you . . . My only excuse is the greatness of my love." At which Penelope sprang from her bed, screaming, "I shall never forgive you! ... I will make you rue the day that you treated a poor girl in this infamous manner. I will make you, and as many as possible of your clerical accomplices, as much of a laughing stock as you have made...
...Johannesburg a tremor ran through the earth. It shook tall office buildings, cracked walls, swung chandeliers, made restaurant waiters spill the soup. Women screamed, and tourists sprang to the.'r feet asking: "Is it an earthquake...
Last week, acting as subcommittee chairman in the absence of McCarthy, South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt sprang a stunner on the British. Information "confirmed by the Defense Department," he announced, showed that between Dec. 29, 1952 and April 20, 1953 exactly 100 British vessels made 177 trips to Red China. To prove his point, Mundt produced the names of 96 of the British ships as well as those of 62 additional ships which had put into Chinese ports flying the flags of twelve other non-Communist nations.* Said Mundt: "We have a right to expect from our friends...