Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, Dwight Eisenhower's spring offensive had rolled through Congress with remarkable success; foreign aid authorization, tax bills, even reciprocal trade and defense reorganization were in remarkably good shape. But last week, in a minor skirmish, Ike got sandbagged into an embarrassing retreat by three Algerian-general types who are supposed to be on his side: Minority Leader William Knowland. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Illinois' Everett McKinley ("Old Bear Grease") Dirksen...
...avoid spreading excessive cheer, Commerce-Labor pointed out that the silver cloud had a grey lining. Much of the May job increase resulted from a surge of hirings for construction projects that had been delayed by early spring's foul weather; employment in manufacturing, the economy's soft spot, actually declined again in May. And Capitol Hill's bearish Joint Economic Committee predicted last week that the economy will not get back its full pre-recession robustness until mid-1959 at the earliest, and possibly not until late...
...Depends greatly on season and weather. Early spring and fall-walks, looking for deer, birds and flowers. Tree surgery, fertilizing, etc. In early spring, tap maples for syrup. Cut down dead trees, sawing and chopping. Target practice with .22 rifle . . . Trips to fishermen's harbor, checking on supplies in stone house, and buying trout or whitefish from commercial fishermen. Clean black bass, perch or rock bass we have caught. Pick wild strawberries, raspberries or bilberries, according to season. On rainy days F. often works on speeches, particularly before dinner. J. typewrites...
Morrison notes that by 1650 students had begun to cut lectures "in order to attend the quarterly courts at Cambridge, the June fair at Watertown, and the spring election in Boston--the nearest equivalent to holidays that the Bay Colony offered...
...ahead. Teachers not infrequently employ the threat to mark infractions on a student's "college record" as a disciplinary persuader. Gradually through a student's four years the pressure of getting into a choice school builds up until it reaches a peak of tension in the winter and spring of his senior year. There seems to be, in general, too much of a stress laid on achieving college admission as the "be-all and end-all." Although the rivalry to enter a good school necessitates some atmosphere of competition, the tendency on both the part of some students and teachers...