Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topped house, marble statue of himself, and an antique bed for a restless bullfighter-16 ft. by 7 ft. Over the gate he posted his new motto: "Do nothing all day-and rest afterward." He romanced Ava Gardner, hobnobbed with Ernest Hemingway, flirted in Hollywood and Las Vegas. Last spring he married luscious Lucia Bose, Miss Italy...
...widely, almost automatically, accepted as one of the century's great composers. Whatever its shortcomings and dull stretches, his music does convey to cramped city audiences a sense of nature's bigness, of a peasant tenacity. Years ago Sibelius wrote in his diary: "A wonderful day, spring and life. The earth exhales a fragrance?mutes and fortissimi. An extraordinary light that reminds one of an August haze...
...short time after he graduated from the University of Illinois in 1918, he seemed well on his way to becoming a big-league baseball player. He signed with the Yankees in 1919, and was slated to become their regular rightfielder. Then he broke his leg running out a spring-training triple. While Halas mended, the Yanks made do with an ex-pitcher named George Herman Ruth. Halas watched his substitute play and wisely decided that he would never get his job back. After that he stuck close to football...
...Hygiene Laboratory said that radioactivity over the city increased eight to nine times. From Tokyo came reports that rain which fell on the island of Kyushu contained 29,800 conts of radioactive particles per liter, compared with a norm of 20 to 30, and with 5,400 during last spring's U.S. tests in Nevada. Some of the radioactive particles fell during snowfalls in the U.S. and Canada...
Under the new plan, brunch would be served from 10:15 to 11:30. The UAC suggested the change after a survey last Spring revealed that less than 25 per cent of the students went to breakfast on Sunday morning. A poll taken by the UAC also showed that students favored brunch over breakfast...