Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small talk in six languages, handing out holy medals, even exchanging his white silk skull cap with some visitor who had brought one for the purpose. The New York Times's late Anne O'Hare McCormick described him thus: "He is straight, strong, taut as a watch spring, thin as a young tree, but tranquil and tranquilizing -a Gothic figure whose vestments fall about him in Gothic folds, whose long hands are raised in Gothic gestures, both stiff and graceful...
...production of Welcome to Our City was fairly successful. In the late spring of 1923 Wolfe was elated, and confident of commercial success. Baker had submitted the play to the Theater Guild, and Wolfe considered himself a buding dramatist: "I am a slave to the thing; my mind is filled with it night and day. I find I have become an evesdropper, I listen to every conversation I hear, I memorize every word I hear people say, in the way they say it. I find myself studying every move, every gesture, every expression, trying to see what it means dramatically...
...year may bring problems for the freshman crew, however. Of the three volunteer coaches--McKursie, Lincoln, and Brown--the latter two cannot coach in the spring...
Under the new system, one Junior and one Sophomore will be elected from each House in the Spring, making a total of twenty-four members from the upper-classes. The remaining four members will come from the Freshman class, replacing the three who were formerly chosen...
Galbraith, who recently returned from a two and one-half month trip through Latin America, discounted claims that the problems in Nixon's "unhappy journey of last spring" were the result of a deeper resentment of the United States. "We do ourselves serious injustice if we seek to explain away a strong popular dislike for Mr. Nixon by saying it applies to the country as a whole...