Word: sprang
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...even with Josh and Donna’s romantic tensions, the Harvard audience was more intrigued by Ryan Pierce, a recent Harvard graduate interning for Josh Lyman. Pierce is a wealthy final club boy with powerful family connections in Washington, a character that Goffman said sprang from writers’ meetings being dominated by Harvard University alumni...
...Pacquiao didn't need prayers. He sprang off the canvas with a playful bounce and waved his opponent forward: bring it on! After that, the fists flew one way. In the third round, Pacquiao landed a concussive left that scrambled Barrera's motor control; the favorite sat down in the ring like a stunned child, feeling a shock that would soon spread to the rest of the boxing world. By the end of the 11th round, a humbled Barrera had been bludgeoned into submission, with Pacquiao landing 150 more power punches than the Mexican. The referee stopped the fight...
Milch says he set out not to write a western but to explore a society just starting to form its laws. He first pitched to HBO a series about cops in Rome during Nero's reign. After that project fizzled, he started reading about Deadwood, a town that sprang up when reports of a gold strike were hyped to justify expansion into Indian territory. "It was like time-lapse photography," he says. "Two months before [Deadwood begins], there was nothing. Two years later, they had telephones, before San Francisco did." The settlement had no laws, purposely. "It was a primordial...
...recent workshop performance at the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, situated in a jungle ravine amid terraced paddy fields, showcased Wilson's stage legerdemain at work. Flimsy sets produced majestic effects: a great seagoing ship was created with a few artfully twisted bamboo culms; a parade of animals sprang to life from bits of cloth, paper and string. The birth of the title character was represented by winding and unwinding the mother from a series of gorgeous sarongs?a simple, graceful illusion that matched the solemnity of the event...
...Harvard ship sprang leaks here and there throughout the season. Sometimes the fissures were too numerous to fix at once. Now, the stopgaps appear firmly in place. The gauges check out. Every lug is lock-tight—especially in its own zone...