Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the announcement came early this year that Carol Channing would take to the road in a 30th anniversary tour of Hello, Dolly!, two questions sprang to mind: Just how ancient is Carol Channing, anyway? and Why would anyone want to see yet another version of that sappy, mediocre show? Here are the answers: 73, but capable of delivering an ageless performance that reminds theatergoers of what it means to see a star; and this particular Hello, Dolly! is a superb production of one of the happiest creations in all of musical comedy. In general, cross-country tours...
Keeping closer watch on the election is an idea that sprang from the council's reevaluation committee last year. "Reevaluation pays attention to maturing issues that may not be of particular interest to an individual," said former press secretary John Feeney...
...rain arrived in a rush, sweeping out of the hills and across the wooden outfield fence at Wahconah Park in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, obscuring the sign that proudly proclaims the Berkshire Medical Center the OFFICIAL HOSPITAL OF THE PITTSFIELD METS. The grounds crew, so to speak, sprang into action. There was nothing big league about it. The soot-gray tarp, patched in several places, did not cooperate with the motley squad of Mets employees in baggy shorts who gamely attempted to pin it to the ground like frenzied wrestlers...
...also called Yura, which is Russian. After all, he was born in Khabarovsk, in the Soviet Far East. North Korean mythographers prefer to obscure that unpatriotic nativity, claiming that their Dear Leader first saw light on sacred Mount Paektu -- the site, according to legend, where Korean civilization sprang into existence 5,500 years ago. Such official obfuscations have ensured that Kim Jong Il remains mostly myth himself, even as he succeeds his father and becomes the leader of one of the world's most dangerous regimes...
...Turkish ambassador to the U.S., Zhirinovsky was arrested and expelled from Turkey in 1969 as a KGB agent. Students back at the Oriental Languages Institute heard that the Turks had thrown him in prison for passing out Soviet badges to Turkish boys and that, after the Soviet consulate sprang him on bail, Zhirinovsky jumped bail. It was widely assumed that the KGB had played a role in his release...