Word: sprang
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...building--and the presidency--sprang back. The inner structure was rebuilt, and the sandstone shell was repaired and scrubbed down. Coats of white paint were applied, giving permanence to the name White House, which was first used in 1806. President James Monroe eagerly moved in and threw a big party in celebration...
Harvard spent another quarter-million dollars to purchase 200 fiberboard "temporary housing units" from the Federal Public Housing Administration and erect them on any land they could find. Small communities of housing refugees sprang up near the Divinity and Business Schools on tennis courts and previously empty lawns...
...Harvard spent another quarter-million dollars to purchase 200 fiberboard "temporary housing units" from the Federal Public Housing Administration and erect them on any land they could find. Small communities of housing refugees sprang up near the Divinity and Business Schools on tennis courts and previously empty lawns...
...black bourgeoisie to the apex of political power is a warts-and-all portrait of a smooth operator. Holmes, a former TIME correspondent and now the chief race-relations reporter for the New York Times, notes that Brown's strength was making connections between the black world he sprang from and the white power structure. His weakness, which Holmes unflinchingly describes, was an inability to resist the financial and sexual rewards that came along as he clawed...
...recent protests in Washington, D.C., against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank demonstrate that the opposition to the prevailing economic order that sprang into public view during December's WTO protests in Seattle has not disappeared. Instead, it has grown stronger, picking two new targets that before would never have imagined themselves the objects of public vilification. Although the calls by some protestors to disband the IMF and World Bank are unjustified, the real question is whether the institutions can reform themselves so as to give greater consideration to the interests of the global poor--and whether...