Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hawskin, veteran of Clinton, Tenn., and the Katyn Massacre, anticipates an early spring offensive in the class war. "We've been polishing our rifles and taking target practice in the U.T. wickers. Also, we kicked Sammy, the steward, downstairs three times in the last week. He had a bloody nose and everything. We are strong, the time will come...
With this aim in mind, the Administration has requested that Brennan and Blaik start recruiting activities early this spring. "One reason we hired these two men," Bold asserted, "was their experience at finding hard-nosed kids. Also we feel that they are good teachers...
...eight years-fearing that it would become just one more platform for anticolonialist tirades-European colonial powers had opposed setting up a U.N. commission for Africa like those already in existence for Asia, Europe and Latin America. Not until last spring, and after U.S. prompting, did the U.N. finally establish the E.G.A. headquarters in Ethiopia, oldest independent nation on the continent. Membership: six European nations, nine independent African countries, and associates from colonial and trust territories. In a continent with a bewildering array of problems and a disheartening lack of experience, the commission hopes to help raise living standards...
...Country & St. Maurice. First indication of the trend, according to Dr. C. Stanley Lowell, managing editor of the P.O.A.U. monthly, Church and State, was a drive last spring by the Catholic Holy Name Society at infantry-minded Fort Benning, Ga. to promote St. Maurice as patron saint of the infantry.* A program was drawn up. calling for erection at Benning of a $2,300 statue of the saint, the printing of 30,000 folders on his life, wide distribution of St. Maurice medals and the presentation of St. Maurice scrolls to Fort Benning visitors...
...Money. In the official announcement of the sale. Jack Knight pleaded "personal reasons" for dropping the biggest link in his chain. He has had a heavy heart since his youngest son. Frank, who was being groomed to take over the empire, died at 30 last spring of a brain tumor. After 40 years of answering the midnight bell. Jack Knight wanted to "relax a little." To the remaining Knight papers, he sent assurances that he had no intention of liquidating the chain...