Word: springing
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Flym left the Air Force in October, 1957. He entered the Columbia University general studies program in the spring of 1958 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Cum Laude in 1961. He got his Ll. B. from Harvard in 1964, spent a year as clerk for a district judge in Denver, Colorado, then came to work for the firm in Boston where he stayed until March of this year. He was married three days before the University Hall trial began...
EVEN the politicians in Paris seemed bemused by spring. None of the candidates for the presidency of France chose to dwell on the fact that just a year ago Paris was a city of barricades and rebel banners, with bloody encounters between baton-wielding riot police and angry students and workers. The speeches, calm, serene, struck a tranquil note, as if the candidates were dreaming of the summer holidays scarcely two months away. Charles de Gaulle, presumably brooding in Ireland over his rebuff in the referendum, no longer cast his long shadow...
...hotel and town are crammed with tourists. It is time for the Nabokovs to leave. They do -to a different place every year, chosen for the local lepidoptera. This year it will be Lugano. Nabokov seemingly never tires of saying he may return to the U.S. "Especially in spring," he says, "I dream of going to spend my purple-plumed sunset in California, among the larkspurs and oaks and in the serene silence of her university libraries...
Stauder said that another such effort was the decision made earlier in the spring to review student section-leaders by the departmental Committee on Undergraduate Instruction. He said that now he suspects that students disciplined for participation in the University Hall takeover will be rejected next year. "It was inevitable we would be restricted and repressed if we were giving a good radical course at a University which serves reactionary interests," Stauder said...
...SPRING of 1942, two jazz collectors followed up a rumor that a survivor of the legendary Buddy Bolden jazz band was living and working as a day laborer in the rice fields of rural Louisiana. They drove all the way across the country hoping just to see him, to speak to him, to learn what New Orleans jazz had been before the turn of the century, before the first World War, before the "dixieland" musicians and the arrangers of the swing era had diluted and transformed its raw power and beauty almost beyond recognition...