Word: sprang
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...brown limousine nosed through the post-game crowd carrying General Omar Bradley. All Cadets sprang to the curb and snapped to attention; the Harvard partisans continued undisturbed down the road to the parking lots," The Crimson wrote...
...Whitehead's Principia Mathematica) in which theorems, following strict rules of inference, sprout from axioms like limbs from a tree. This process of theorem sprouting had to start somewhere, and that is where the axioms came in: they were the primordial seeds, the Ur-theorems from which all others sprang...
...classic horseman's duster that was one of Peterman's hottest items when he started the business 12 years ago. Even if you look like Clint Eastwood, the duster is not advisable. Though we all like to dress up--and the baby boomers especially, for they sprang from the costume party of the '60s--you must beware lest some kid in the crowd may be laughing and pointing, not at the emperor's nakedness, but at your Peterman outfit...
That job fell to Dale Bumpers, the four-term, just-retired Arkansas Senator who would come to the chamber to play the coda. The idea for his appearance, in fact, sprang from the Senate floor. Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin was troubled by how the Republican managers were like next-door neighbors who knew how to talk across the fence--even to Democrats. At the defense table, however, sat a bunch of strangers...
Suddenly, the campaign-finance scandals seemed to have serious national-security implications. New investigative bodies sprang up in the House and Senate last week as legislators from both parties made grave pronouncements about the apparent security breach. But TIME's examination of the evidence suggests there may be less to the China connection than meets the eye. Investigative sources tell TIME there's no evidence that anyone in the White House knew Chung was funneling money from Chinese sources or that Chung ever lobbied anyone about the transfer of satellite-launch technology. Chung's lawyer, Brian Sun, insists Liu never...