Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come in early anyway; students could continue to decide when they would apply. Yale, for instance, handled a thousand voluntarily early applications last fall in an experimental admissions program. With early exam scores and applications, all colleges could begin their weeding out processes in September, and continue in the spring. They would thus alleviate their mammoth blue-form burden in April...
...mail last spring, TV Star Liberace received an unusual letter. "Even back in our old days in Boston ten years ago," it read, "I was sure that you would some day become famous enough for me to kick around in Li'l Abner . . . Since you are now a household word, it is up to all the Yokums and all the Capps to kid the daylights out of you, your piano, your candles, your curly hair and your adoring fans. I plan to do a Sunday page sequence about a pianist named Liverachy. Any resemblance to you will be deliberate...
...league baseball used to be a seasonal occupation. Come fall, a player could clean up his shotgun, untangle his fishing tackle, or just loaf on the front porch waiting for spring. If he needed spare cash, he could act like a businessman. Then eager-beaver bushers discovered a gold mine: the winter leagues. Across the Caribbean, from Cuba to Colombia, hotheaded Latins were paying good money to watch the Great American Game. A man could keep solvent, keep warm, and keep in practice all winter. Best of all, he could keep on playing baseball...
...When the control center at White Sands Proving Ground wants a target for its deadly missiles to kill, it signals the crew of a target launcher parked out on the desert. A small, solid propellant rocket roars into the sky. When it reaches 40,000 feet or higher, a spring pushes its nose off, releasing a parachute whose silk is covered with a thin film of silver. The silver reflects radar waves like the skin of an enemy aircraft. As the parachute drifts down slowly, the missiles climbing up from below attack it intelligently and blow it to shreds...
Sweltering last spring in the uncomfortable heat of the Army-McCarthy hearing, President Eisenhower made the statement that the issue of Communism in the Democratic administration and "20 years of treason" would not be a part of this Fall's campaign. Severely, he decried the tactic of impugning the patriotism and loyalty of a responsible sections of the nation's opinion...