Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fellow programmer to help network administrators scan their computers for the technological equivalent of an unlocked back door -- a security hole that could be exploited by unauthorized users looking for a way to break in. By locating the cracks in their computer systems, administrators could patch them before they sprang leaks...
...torsos. The bodies of children caught in a bombing have been charred to cinders. The only discernible feature on a decayed corpse is the diagonal throat slash from right ear through to the spinal column-the ghoulish trademarks that every Algerian recognizes as the signature of the guerrillas who sprang from the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.). "The fundamentalists are vermin," declares a government official. "We must wipe them out, even if we have to kill millions of people...
...ever really buy those contraptions. And then it happened. A girl in my section showed up, in mid-December, wearing a tight, longsleeved up, in mid-December, wearing a tight, long sleeved shirt with a mohair sports-bra over it. A pink one. OverI her actual shirt. One thought sprang to mind--"Why?" Was she not experiencing the depths of winter like the rest of us? This little fuzzy strip couldn't have been making her any warmer, and it certainly wasn't offering any measure of support, if that's what you're thinking (you perv...
...publisher, Little, Brown, a Time Warner company, sprang for an initial printing of 500,000 and reserved press time for reprinting within a week if the demand was there. Charles E. Hayward, president and CEO of Little, Brown, said he ``had no qualms whatsoever'' about publishing. Hayward said that ``if you just enter into endeavors looking to make money, that's probably where you lose the most. The power of the message and power of context in which the book has been published really was its greatest appeal.'' Still, buyers probably would be well advised not to look...
...Tofflers like to call them, in human history. The first took place some 10,000 years ago, when certain hunter-gathering tribes discovered agriculture and settled down. The second occurred with the Industrial Revolution 300 years ago. People flocked to the cities, where the new manufacturing jobs sprang up; they were mass-educated for mass-production. Power shifted from the owners of property to the creators of capital...