Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andrew Cunningham and Major General James Doolittle conferred with Sir Arthur William Tedder, R.A.F. chief in the Middle East,* and Major General Lewis Brereton, chief of U.S. Middle East air forces. Tedder and Brereton had flown in from Egypt. The moment Tunis was cleared, the trap would probably be sprung on Rommel...
Paced by fighter planes and dive bombers which silenced enemy artillery, the American ground forces sprung a small-scale offensive and at one point a band of Marines made a two-mile advance...
During the winter of 1922, that gentleman (whose weather reports, given in a mixture of bad English and rapid French, had to be heard to be believed; he had already sprung some astonishing surprises on us in the way of forecasts, one of the best of which was an announcement that we might expect the weather to be "squoggy"), was asked by a worried pilot, en route to England, for the weather conditions in the English Channel. He announced solemnly "Gremlins sur la Manche," and left it at that. Further efforts by the pilot to get an explanation were...
...Harvard Yard there are more men in uniform than in mufti. A dozen or more special schools for Army & Navy men have sprung up. Officers and undergraduates double up in double-decker bunks, overflow dormitories. They eat in shifts (but contracts have been let for a huge new mess hall on the Soldiers' Field tennis courts). The president's big house on Quincy Street has been converted into Naval offices...
...suddenly sprung...