Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rivers of Babylon. The development board has already built irrigation dams across the Tigris and Euphrates north of Baghdad, while dams, channels and dikes gouged by German, French, British and American contractors will catch next spring's floodwaters for the first time and lead them into new $30 million lakes at Wadi Tharthar and Habbaniya. Downstream, other contractors are digging drainage ditches and scooping silt from the ancient Babylonian water-distribution canals, now scheduled to be used again as in Hammurabi's time. In upper Iraq, a French firm is building a $28 million concrete dam at Dokan...
...Among Prophetess Dixon's successful long-range auguries: Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in the spring of 1945, Truman's re-election in 1948, Bulganin's displacement of Malenkov as U.S.S.R. Premier, the Eisenhower landslide in 1952, and Ike's illness in Denver last fall...
Their lawyers jointly conducted a fight last spring to quash the contempt indictments. Judge Aldrich, however, rejected the defense arguments as "premature" and ordered a trial where the questions could be "viewed in their full perspective...
Oppenheimer, director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, will deliver the biennial James Lectures in the spring of 1957 under the auspices of the departments of Philosophy and Psychology...
Like a fawn born in spring, television passed its tender youth in a favorable climate. During the past six years, while TV sets were becoming common articles of furniture, the sun had few spots to mess up TV reception. Now sunspots are increasing on their nine-to 13-year cycle, and televiewers are apt to see odd and sometimes annoying effects...