Word: springs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Funds for the White House balcony he had built last spring...
...worst break in prices since the spring...
...became Finance Minister in 1924, and budgeted so conservatively in the next 15 years that he became known as the "Minister of Surpluses." When war came in 1939, he plumped for South African neutrality, split with Prime Minister Smuts, and two years later disappeared into the political wilderness. Last spring he allied his Afrikaaner Party with the race-conscious Nationalist Party (TIME, June 7) and rode back into power when Smuts went...
Charley Gray closed the door of his $30,000 house in Sycamore Park, Conn, and eased himself into the Buick beside his wife. On this rainy spring morning in 1947, as she did every weekday morning, Nancy was driving him to catch the 8:30 train to his Fifth Avenue bank job in midtown Manhattan. To Charley, this always seemed the friendliest time of the day. He noticed how Nancy's hair curled below the edges of her green hat and he realized gratefully that he could talk to her about the children, or the household budget...
...This spring, a great many U.S. readers (including thousands of Charley and Nancy Grays) will be reading Point of No Return on commuting trains and at home, after the family car has been run into the garage. Ineligible for Book-of-the-Month Club selection because Marquand is one of the club's five* judges (it can and will be a B-O-M "dividend" book), the novel has already gone through four printings totaling 80,000 copies. Wiseacres in the publishing business look upon the figure as a mild beginning...