Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist-led guerrillas chose March 29, eighth anniversary of the birth of the Huk movement, * to begin their raids. Between midnight and dawn, bands of well-armed Huks sprang on four towns in the provinces surrounding Manila...
...while a small group of witnesses looked on, the nooses were slipped over the black-hooded heads of two convicted murderers. The dark-suited little man, known professionally as Mr. Ellis, checked to make sure that the slipknots fitted snugly behind each man's left ear. Then he sprang the trap door and the prisoners plunged downward...
Last week, on a radio round table sponsored by the University of Chicago, Associate Professor Harrison Brown sprang a chiller to top all chillers. The blast effects of hydrogen bombing, Brown told his nationwide audience, will be only the beginning; the radioactive aftereffects will be far worse. Hydrogen explosions, he said, will fill the air with fiercely radiating isotopes. They will drift with the wind, he believes, like a swarm of invisible locusts, killing people, animals, insects, plants...
...noisome of the "bad Germans" is stocky, pushing Wolfgang He.dl.er, 50, an early Nazi, now a formally denazified member of Bonn's Bundestag. Hedler's denazification is skin-deep. A reactionary Deutsche Partei man, he believes that Hitler's defeat was no failure of fascism; it sprang from the "treason and sabotage of the resistance movement." Last November in Einfeld Hedler boldly harangued a crowd of refugees, disgruntled farmers, ex-officers and soldiers...
...Kenneth Oberholtzer's convention guests, however, all that would have a familiar sound. All over the U.S., critics had raised their voices to attack the educators and the basic pragmatic philosophy of John Dewey from which in large part their system sprang. There were also critics with a simpler question: Were the schools trying to do too much, and thus doing nothing thoroughly...