Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serene wilderness of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, might have locked his creaky door had he caught a glimpse of the U.S. last week. It was a remarkable sight. In the heat of this midsummer, the nation looked upon time not as a quiet stream but as a bubbling spring from which it might satisfy an endless thirst for motion...
Wilson's latest cutbacks, putting U.S. military manpower at 22% under the 1953 Korean war peak, mostly reflected an increasingly painful Pentagon budget squeeze, in turn caused by the spiraling costs of missile research and development, of complex new electronic devices, of materials and labor generally. Early this spring, Defense spending flew embarrassingly out of hand, promised to exceed...
Rear Admiral Carrero (a weekend Navy man who got his admiral's rank only this spring) went on to describe Franco as "one of those gifts that Providence grants a nation every three or four centuries," a man "fundamentally antiliberal, anti-capitalist and anti-Marxist." "The person" Franco would choose to "sit in his time on the throne." continued the admiral, would be a man "perfectly identified with" and "absolutely loyal to" the Falange movement. This suggested, just as many Spanish monarchists have long uneasily suspected, that Franco intends to crown not the No. 1 heir Don Juan...
Watching Aaron that night was a scout from the Milwaukee Braves who soon signed him up. Aaron went up through the Braves' farm system, in 1954 got his big chance when Outfielder Bobby Thomson broke his ankle in spring training. Last year, lashing out at any bad pitch that caught his fancy, Aaron won the league batting championship with a .328 average, led both major leagues with 200 hits...
...insatiable Colette lived day in, day out with this appetite. The mere sight of a Camembert cheese roused desire to "feel the crust, measure the elasticity of the texture." Sapphires, spring's first lilies of the valley, the smell of humus, the sight of a dead tree branch "polished, glazed, oiled by generations of reptiles"-all these roused her. "She knew a recipe for everything, whether it was for furniture-polish, vinegar, orange-wine, quince-water, for cooking truffles or preserving linen . . ." It is no surprise to hear that "Balzac and Proust were the authors whom she reread untiringly...