Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with its sternly chiseled features and cold, probing eyes, is a haunting one. Here is a man who has looked-literally-into other men's hearts; yet it is hard to conceive of his yielding to the more tender emotions, such as love and compassion, commonly supposed to spring from that most mysterious of human organs. Why don't you print a picture of him in a business suit, or doesn't he ever wear anything but his surgeon's trappings...
...Michigan's spring election approached, neither Democrats nor Republicans were confident. Democratic leaders pointed out that the G.O.P. traditionally wins most offices in spring elections, while Republican chiefs frankly admitted that their party was hard up and torn by factions. Last week, after 1,120,000 votes swept a Democrat into every available job for the first time in almost a quarter of a century, the leaders of both parties agreed on the main cause: the iron-spun coattails of Michigan's maturing (46) boy wonder, Governor G. (for Gerhard) Mennen Williams...
...greatest monuments of Western civilization. But it is rapidly becoming one of the world's most ill-kept storehouses of classic art. ¶ In Venice, the parish priest of the 12th century church of San Felice, off the Grand Canal, was forced to stop in mid-Mass last spring as cracks suddenly opened across the church nave walls, showering the congregation with plaster. Near by, the floor of world-famed San Marco is sinking, Santo Stefano is developing its own leaning tower, scores of palazzos and villas are becoming increasingly strapiombati (out of plumb...
...doubt about its health for the rest of 1957 all but disappeared last week. The Department of Commerce reported that personal income reached a record annual rate of $336.7 billion in February, forecast even fatter pay envelopes ahead for the nation's workers. Starting off the seasonal spring rise, employment rose to 63,865,000 to set a record for March. Retail sales were holding firm, and production was expected to hold its record 1956 pace...
...Yale Undergraduate Drama Festival held in New Haven at the beginning of spring vacation was slightly misnamed. Except for a couple of isolated moments, the gathering of some three hundred representatives from nineteen Eastern colleges lacked anything resembling a festive air. Instead, an atmosphere of rather grim determination surrounded the occasion. "If we don't stay on schedule," one handout solemnly announced, "our universe will be reduced once again to chaos and darkness." College drama, it was clear, is not a lighthearted endeavor...