Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, Nelson made clear, reconversion is not something to be sprung on the U.S. overnight. It is now going on, and the invasion of Europe will accelerate it. To support invading armies, transportation facilities must be rebuilt and expanded. (Part of Baldwin Locomotive is shifting from tank manufacture to making special locomotives for the Government, for use in Europe.) To feed, clothe and shelter civilian populations, U.S. capital goods production must still be large. All this means that a big chunk of U.S. industry will probably be hard at peacetime production when the war ends, although production...
Twelve hours before the trap was to be sprung, the President commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Argued Humanitarian Roosevelt: there are different qualities of treason. Stephan's was a low degree of treason, it was not preconceived. Warden Cecil J. Shuttleworth told once-tough Nazi Stephan. He kissed the warden's hands, hugged his lawyers, kissing and crying and laughing...
...President has set up a big new agency, most of the citizenry has sighed a whoosh of relief and gone off about their business. But by last week, when OWM was created, the people had no breath left. They were all whooshed out. One agency after another had sprung open at the seams under savage pressure from without, revealing civil wars boiling within...
...ranks showed signs of mutiny. But many critics seemed decidedly obtuse about The Eternal City. New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell declared: "The political aspects of this treatise are not altogether clear. We are left in doubt as to whether the propagandist considers this modern dictator a self-sprung megalomaniac or a figurehead manipulated by social forces...
Hiking Party. Finally the objectives were overrun. The sweating Rangers reformed; the day's work was not over. It is never over. Toughest of all are the noncombat exercises sometimes sprung on the men when they have just finished exercises under fire. And toughest of those is the "speed march...