Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alice Robinson, 73, onetime art teacher at Ohio State, made a terrifying discovery in her later years: "I found I had lost interest in art. After retiring, my life came to consist of just going to church and rocking in a chair on the front porch." At Cold Spring she discovered a new talent: writing TV scripts. But more important, says she, "they have taught us to laugh here. I had forgotten how to laugh...
...Trumbull at 19 was an aide-de-camp to Washington and had viewed the battle on Bunker's Hill through field glasses from his post in Roxbury, but he resigned his commission in a huff and later departed for London. Gilbert Stuart, then 19, got away in the spring of 1775 aboard the last ship to escape the embargo in Boston Harbor. John Singleton Copley, best portraitist in the colonies, was a Tory sympathizer who left Boston in 1774, never returned...
...Inventories will grow at a rate of $5 billion a year until next spring, then grow more slowly...
...Incomes will advance $15 billion a year v next spring, but the rate of personal savings will go up $7 billion...
Imagination & Morals. Winding up a successful run on Broadway, 3 for Tonight breezed onto Front Row Center (Wed. 10 p.m. E.D.T., CBS-TV) like a breath of spring. On an empty stage with no sets and few props, Narrator Hiram Sherman asked his viewers to contribute imagination to the show. He held up a pencil and said it was a sprig of lilac. Just then a girl walked by. "You're late," said , Sherman. She hung her head. "Here," he said, and handed her the pencil. Immediately the girl was aglow. "Oh!" she exclaimed, cupping the pencil, "what lovely...