Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Japanese defending Mandalay suddenly found themselves in the middle of a semicircle. General Slim had sprung tanks and airborne troops in a swift 85-mile dash from one bridgehead into Meiktila (70 miles south of Mandalay), to seize eight Jap airfields. There and on the way there the British killed 1,600 Japs. With one punch they had severed the enemy's land and water links from Rangoon to Mandalay, and had virtually cut off the main forces defending Burma. The next move was up to the Japs -if they could make...
Onto the Mahroussa's immaculate deck stalked the eldest of Ibn Saud's 40 sons, a dozen of his dignitaries. King Farouk inclined his plump person in a cordial bow. Then they all went ashore, where a city of silken tents had sprung up overnight. For the first time ever, massive, majestic Ibn Saud, absolute ruler of the biggest, near-medieval Arab state, and King Farouk, ruler of the wealthiest, most progressive Arab state, exchanged the traditional obeisances of greeting. The two sovereigns had long been rivals for the leadership of still unborn Pan-Arabia...
Half-Measures. The fact was that OPA was caught in a trap it had foolishly sprung on itself two years ago under political pressure. At that time it clamped a low ceiling on the wholesale and retail prices of beef, but left cattle prices free to rise. Packers were hushed with a subsidy. This compromise was what the politically potent cattle raisers wanted. They won their market freedom, against the warning of scores of economists that no control over the retail price of food could work unless there was complete control of all farmers and farm prices...
That was what the amorphous União was apparently waiting for. It let the world know that it was watching for an old dodge: a sudden, fascist-style election sprung on the unprepared Brazilian people by the Dictator. It also let the world know that it had a presidential candidate in mind: popular Air General Eduardo Gomes, who was considered democratic-minded but had enough influence with the military to make his election stick...
...month ago, advertising trade papers carried news of the death of "Byron Keating, 59, after a heart attack attributed to overwork." Actually, Byron Keating was killed by his own parents-the two Cincinnati copywriters from whose lively imaginations he had sprung to hoax the advertising world...