Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April the Corporation acted on Lowell's recommendations and voted to use the Union as a freshman dining hall when the Yardlings eventually moved to the Yard, and later that spring names for the rest of the new Houses were voted on by the Corporation...
...glint in the sand and gravel. In the villages of the Panhandle in the southeast, the red salmonberry blossoms fluttered, and the Indians spun out to gather wild celery and Indian rhubarb, came home for feasts of delicate herring eggs (cooked in seal oil, garnished with soy sauce). Spring yawned in the lower valleys, and out popped the arctic poppy, shooting star, lupine and forget-me-not (Alaska's official flower). And now, after a long winter's self-imposed confinement, out lumbered the great Alaskan bears-and with them the sudden sparkle of high military brass from...
Last week as the seasonal rains fell, signaling the start of ant harvest time, Santandereano peasants bolted their spring planting and scrambled as fast as their bare feet would take them to the dune-like ant hills that dot the countryside near the city of Bucaramanga. Stepping lively to avoid the angry swarms of worker ants, they seized the inch-long queens as they emerged, and popped them into hollowed calabashes. The nimblest harvesters caught up to three lbs. of ants in a morning's work...
...Scala began peace talks with Tebaldi this spring, hoped she would sing at a special performance this summer at the Brussels World's Fair. Last week her fans were still throwing radishes at Callas, and so were some critics. "[Maria Callas'] well-organized claque," said Milan's Il Giorno, "does not prevent her voice from damaging well-formed ears." The final blow came when Manager Ghiringhelli, who had avoided her for months, cut Callas dead backstage. Enraged, she took public revenge at her next performance of Il Pirata. Instead of pointing offstage to her lover mounting...
...Bliss Chair in Latin American History was endowed so long ago, Gilmore said, that it no longer supports the full cost of a professor. Gilmore stated that the money will be used for the guest lecturer next spring, if he is secured, or will be kept to help endow the post when a new man is found...