Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compete physically with the other brothers Eisenhower, young Milton went after recognition through mental achievement. To his surprise and surpassing pleasure, Milton found himself rising high in the esteem of brother Dwight, who rewarded Milton's scholastic accomplishments with prizes from his own slender wages at the Belle Spring Creamery. "I was tremendously impressed that Dwight wanted me to succeed," says Milton today. An Abilene schoolteacher, Annie Hopkins, was installed in the household to supervise the homework of both Milton and Earl, did such an expert job on Milton that his Latin teacher accused him of using a pony...
Clouds of Dust. A miracle it was not. It was a triumph of technology over nature. For the second straight year, the prairie earth was made to yield more moisture than it received. An almost snowless winter gave way to an arid spring; by June topsoil began to blow in a grim reminder of the Dirty Thirties. "Every time there was a sprinkle." said a Moose Jaw farmer, "I'd go out and kick the soil. All I got was a cloud of dust...
...room, only a flight to Paris and home the next day. There was evidence that contestants on certain shows had signed away their prizes before going on, undertaking to accept their TV winnings for far less cash than their real value. The best defense that network officials and their spring-legged pressagents could make in private was that the quiz shows were not really crooked but only hippodromed, like a wrestling match; i.e., they merely rig the questions so that any contestant whose weak spots are known can be made to win or lose...
Came the time when Ernie was on location in Arizona, shooting The Badlanders, and who should be playing opposite him but Katy Jurado, a very classy actress-no spring chicken, but. as they say, built. When she heard that Ernie and Rhoda had split, she came around, just neighborly like, to say she was sorry. "Waddayawanna do tonight." said Ernie, and they went out on the town...
...Russian lunar probe has less priority than other undisclosed projects, said the U.S.S.R.'s top space spokesman, Leonid Sedov. He said no more. Other astronauts concluded from what he said that he meant Russia will try to orbit a man in a Sputnik by spring. An American will achieve the same stunt within five years, said the U.S. Army's Wernher von Braun, "and most likely sooner...