Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wisconsin's primary is a year away, and Kennedy strategists are not certain their man will have to be in it. Kennedy-financed Wisconsin polls show Kennedy far ahead of Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey. If Humphrey picks up support before spring, Kennedy will take him on, hoping to knock him out of the running in his own backyard. If Humphrey does not get off the ground Kennedy will force no showdown in Wisconsin...
...Back to Work Special" trains they trooped into Washington's Union Station: men in open-necked sports shirts, women in spring prints, many wearing blue and white badges marked "A.F.L.-C.I.O. Conference on Unemployment-Jobs for All." Already, some members of the Toledo delegation were looking slightly green; something they had eaten aboard their train soon laid 100 of them low, sent 28 to hospitals. Ohio's Republican Congressman William Hanes Ayres of Akron was on hand at the depot with coffee, doughnuts, and a sign saying: SEE YOUR CONGRESSMAN FIRST. HE CAN HELP YOU MOST...
Britain, in the spring of 1959, is in a strange mood. Some critics too hurriedly raised the old cry of appeasement, leading the Spectator to retort waspishly: "For the Germans, of all people, to accuse Mr. Macmillan of wanting to do another 'Munich' is a little indelicate." Munich is obviously not the right word. But Britain-public, press and government-is plainly at odds with its allies. It lives on greater hopes and conjures up greater fears...
After splitting two games on a Bermuda trip this spring, New York blanked the Montreal Barbaraians 6 to 0, and then crushed Wesleyan, 24 to 0. Crimson Club present Bill Morse feels that "besides Princeton and Dartmouth, New York will be our strongest opponent...
...undefeated Crimson squad has already made a distinguished record this spring, and today will be fielding an even stronger team than that which crushed Montreal last week. Before downing Montreal, Harvard defeated M.I.T. to win the Woburn Trophy and then went on to capture the Bermuda Intercollegiate Rugby Title...