Word: sprang
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...among his supporters in Medellin and the surrounding countryside. His hiding places included secret rooms carved out between walls, under stairs and underground. Often he cloaked himself in artful guises, dressing as a woman or riding in coffins as a corpse. At least four times, moments before the trap sprang shut, the wily farmer's son with the double chin and potbelly slipped away and mysteriously vanished. "He was like a deer," says a DEA agent involved in the chase. "He could disappear into the hills...
...recently as last summer, United We Stand's most striking characteristic seemed to be its internal divisions. Many of itsstate leaders quit or were fired when independent-minded franchises clashed with Perot's Dallas-based lieutenants. At least 100 offshoots disenchanted with Perot sprang up. "Nobody is happy all the time," admits UWSA spokeswoman Sharon Holman. In fact, one New York dissident group has been so unhappy that it sent Gore a tip sheet before the debate, identifying Perot's personal hot-buttons...
Paglia, who sprang to national prominence after the 1990 publication of her book Sexual Personae, spoke on academic reform for nearly two hours before an capacity audience of about...
Yale's four-game losing skid came to a close when Woodroofe tallied all three of her team's goal against Princeton. Woodroofe thus sprang into the league lead for points scored in Ivy games. Her six points tioe her with Cornell's Amy Deuslng and Heather Ott for the top spot...
...mighty river. Over the past seven decades, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has spent billions of dollars constructing an elaborate flood-control network, including 7,000 miles of levees, along the Mississippi and the rivers that feed it. The system was intended to protect the communities that sprang up on the river's edge, and most of the time it has. But many environmentalists believe that, over the years, the corps's attempts to control the Mississippi have backfired. Left to its own devices, a flooding river spreads horizontally, filling its natural floodplain and enriching it with fertile, alluvial...