Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spring Weekend will be held this year on May 9 and 10. A Paine Hall band concert on Friday, crew races and a baseball game on Saturday, and the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate will be features of the annual event. In addition, all Houses will have dances on both nights...
McGonigle took the finance job on condition that he never be named for elective office. But one evening in March, while he and wife Cordelia munched homemade gingerbread and gulped raspberry Jell-O in the kitchen of their Sinking Spring home outside Reading, the telephone rang. Casting about for a fresh face for this year's political war, the G.O.P. steering committee had chosen his as the freshest. McGonigle accepted, then began beating across Pennsylvania in a tan Oldsmobile station wagon to make the face better known and to express outspoken views; e.g., he would, as governor, veto...
...Macapagal has gathered round him a shadow cabinet of advisers, and set up his own intelligence service in the government. Last week, as President Garcia blithely mapped his strategy for getting another $300 million from the U.S. during his forthcoming visit to Washington this spring, Macapagal's sleuths began seeking evidence of corruption...
...Adullam, not far from where David battled Goliath, busloads of Hungarians and Iranians arrived last week. Israeli soldier girls, led by Lieut. Yael Dayan, daughter of the former chief of Israel's armed forces, helped them move their belongings into the neat, three-room concrete cottages on the spring-green Judean slopes. There was still the familiar hard readjustment: "I lived in a third-floor apartment-and now look," exclaimed a clerk from Budapest, thrusting out hands blistered by operating a pneumatic drill with a road-building crew. But now newcomers are guaranteed 250 days' work at regular...
Swing into Spring: "Benny," said Host Dave Garroway to King of Swing Goodman, "have you any idea how many couples met, danced, fell in love and got married, all because of you?" Fumbling for a figure, Benny Goodman at length replied: "1,327,463." After that improbable exchange, NBC valiantly set out to prove that swing not only scintillates on TV but is newer, "bigger and better" than ever. Visually tricked out with color, old-fashioned microphones and vignettes of young love (a car radio in a moonlit convertible of the '30s), Swing swung down the nostalgic side...