Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with-the-wind speech at the annual town-gown day in Big Spring, Texas (pop. 24,800), Johnson dashed off a list of likely congressional specifics: a depressed-areas bill, "an atomic merchant marine," bigger water development programs for the West, "a bold housing program," "jet-age" airport facilities, "courageous urban renewal," a mild antirackets labor law like Kennedy-Ives, outer-space exploration, "a consistent policy for Latin America," "bold, new, imaginative" foreign policies. He hinted at new attacks upon Administration hard-money policy ("We need to face up to the high interest rates which are slowing the needed growth...
Obstacles in the Dark. Their troubles came with the warmth of spring and summer. Ice Skate was cracking. The airstrip had already crumbled away from the rest of the floe. Again and again they built new strips as their drifting cake crumbled and chipped apart. Heavy windstorms swept over, first from one direction, then from another, moving the ice mass slowly to and fro with a sheer force that caused new cracks and pressure ridges...
...demotion, Kassem softened the late-night radio broadcast of Aref's arrest "for plotting against the national safety" by a timely decree boosting pay for the armed forces and police, alloting free seed for farmers, and promoting to the next class all students who failed last spring's exams...
...Fundamentals. He started slowly, worked on fundamentals all spring, did not even introduce his offense (split-T with variations that include a double wing belly series) until pre-season practice started in August. Says he: "I had to create a happy atmosphere. The game should be fun-relaxed, happy, undrudge-like. We don't berate the boys for failures. There are no horsewhips around here...
More complicated words of Ruly English are meant to eliminate confusion caused by differing points of view. Both a watch spring and a heavy bridge girder are flexible in some degree. Both are also somewhat rigid. All objects, in fact, lie somewhere on the scale between extreme flexibility and extreme rigidity. So Newman has arbitrarily coined the Ruly word resilrig to cover the whole scale, and has added such prefixes as sli (slightly) and mb (substantially). In Ruly English, a bridge girder would be sliresilrig and a watch spring subresilrig. A properly trained computer would know the meaning exactly...