Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face of adversity, some residents turned to humor. Several student posters sprang up, parodying the official posters that announced times that the alarm system would be tested...
...Previn sprang into action for the symphony, directing more vigorously than he had in the Ravel. In the second movement, which is predicated on rumbling rotations around a handful of pitches, Previn admirably prevented the BSO from sounding cumbersome. The eerie series of suggestions from the winds and keyboard instruments was neatly enveloped by the strings' rolling momentum...
Salt Lake City willhost the 2002 Winter Olympics. While boosters watched on a giant screen back home, delegates from the Utah capital sprang from their seats when the International Olympic Committee cast its ballot today in Budapest. Ostersund, Sweden, Sion, Switzerland and Quebec were the runners up. The decision brings the Winter Games to U.S. for the first time since 1980, when they were played in Lake Placid, N.Y. Salt Lake City has been lobbying for the honor since 1966. B.Y.O.B...
...where book reading is supposed to be an endangered habit, it is an oddly heartening sight. By the end of the year, the U.S. will have more than 450 sprawling, chain-run book emporiums equipped with reading tables, sofas, club chairs and coffee bars. Well over 100 new ones sprang up in 1994; seven will open this year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, alone. These superstores, run by such chains as Barnes & Noble, Borders and Media Play, usually stock around 100,000 titles (in contrast to 20,000 for a typical mall store). But the real attraction is the opportunity to cuddle...
...Standard sprang from a series of attention-grabbing memos by Kristol when he was chairman of the Project for the Republican Future, the most famous of which declared, "There is no health-care crisis," and the most prescient of which provided a blueprint for conservatives becoming a governing majority. Last October, Kristol and Podhoretz decided that these papers could also be the blueprint for a new magazine. They arranged to meet Murdoch for dinner in Beverly Hills, California, and suddenly those memos were worth $3 million more than the paper they were printed...