Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clique of colonels had sprung Perón into power in 1943. Last week it was Argentina's younger officers, the lieutenants, captains and majors, who had told potent General Avalos that the country was threatened with civil war and the Army with destruction as long as Perón dominated the Government. They demanded a showdown. Avalos agreed. Because Avalos controlled Campo de Mayo (one-third to one-half the Army's effectives), Perón had no choice but to resign as Vice President, Minister of War and Secretary of Labor...
With the opening of these centers, the Army will complete the last and most ambitious phase of its vast post-V-E education project. Hundreds of unit command schools have sprung up everywhere. Army-sponsored courses at civilian schools have also made a hit. When the program reaches its peak, more than 1,500,000 troops will be enrolled...
...Columbus, Ohio, Prisoner Earl Pritcherd, washing walls, found the jail's safe open, removed $600, spent $50 of it to hire a lawyer, who sprung him out of jail...
...Medals. Patton is a great morale-booster: he distributes medals lavishly, builds up rivalries among his units. The 4th Armored Division is his pace setter, the one that is always sprung through for open-field running. It has a dazzling record. It cut off the Brittany peninsula, plunged through the Loire valley with only air protection on its flanks. In the Battle of the Bulge it raced to the rescue of Bastogne, went on to help carve up the German advance. In the Saar-Palatinate cleanup it sliced through in parallel combat columns, scored one of the big victories...
...blaze of speculation and hope had sprung up around two secondary political figures-the Congress party's Bhulabhai Desai, 67, and the Moslem League's Nawabzada Liaqat Ali Khan, 49, who reportedly had set out to break the interminable deadlock. Both were members of the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi, both felt that they could negotiate with the British authorities more freely than their policy-bound leaders, Mohandas Gandhi and Mohamed Ali Jinnah...