Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Leon Henderson headed the Office of Price Administration, he fought hard against sprung rationing-rationing of a single commodity announced overnight without suitable preparation of the public. Last week, as buyers smarting under the sudden shoe rationing order rushed to buy clothes for fear of an unexpected new order by the Government, the wisdom of Leon Henderson's position became apparent...
Democrats had expected a plea for aid to China; Republican Clare Luce picked a topic of perhaps greater importance: Who will rule the postwar airways? (TIME, Feb. 15). In this new sphere, air-minded Clare Luce sprung an old American phobia: that a shrewd and calculating John Bull is going to hornswoggle a naive and idealistic Uncle Sam unless somebody watches...
...Trail. First the FBI picked up Nelson and Stewart. Then, with FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover directing, it laid careful traps around the two North Side apartments. One night last week the traps were sprung...
...German people of today are no longer the same as the German people of . . . 1914-18. A people's state has sprung from the former bourgeois capitalist state. >"The surest guarantor for the strength of will necessary [for victory] is in the National Socialist Party with its organizations, and over & above everything, a nation educated...
Since June 1941, when he was appointed chairman of a Parliamentary committee to survey existing schemes of social insurance and allied services, he has put his ideas in a 100,000-word document, which last week was ready to be sprung on England. If preliminary forecasts were correct, it bid fair to be a memorable document...