Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potent weapon but an unruly member, cut loose with an all-out show for the voters, mixing mock tears with invective, prayers with abuse, fireworks with slaps of the cold towel. His language got him in the kind of trouble he likes best: name-calling. The little rump-sprung Mayor, who has been campaigning New York City for 24 years, had a far shrewder appreciation than his opponents of the delicate art of abuse. He started the ball rolling by putting the name of Governor Herbert Lehman (backer of his opponent, William O'Dwyer) into the same paragraph with...
...paradoxes which are being exploded by the Nazi revolution. If they are to be really exploded, these misrepresentations of the popular will, we must attempt to understand what that will is. Nazism is reaction; it is everything we hate. Yet it is not imposed from above. It has sprung out of the conditions of a world we have dominated. It shows unmistakably the hopelessness of that world in attaining for man the ideals he most wants...
...denied official tutelage by the redoubtable Tiger, there can be no doubt that Tammany looks upon him as its candidate. All the ward-heeling machinery which has been growing rusty since La Guardia made up his mind to do away with that kind of a machine age has sprung once more into action. Every Bronz big-shot and Brooklyn saloon keeper who has a finger in the Tammany pie is licking his chops in anticipation of an early feast after a long famine...
...target of the title is a newly sprung-up clump of naval stores (oil, barges, etc.) spied out by reconnaissance craft at Frei-hausen, Germany. The camera follows the raid preparations: selection of the target by the Chief of the Bomber Command in his great hall papered with maps, cluttered with ceiling-high ladders, scale rulers, calipers, telephones; designation of one experienced squadron to make a low-level attack; instruction of the chosen crews at Millerton Airfield by the Wing Commander; arming, gassing and readying the bombers; and, when night comes, the takeoff...
...Sprung from the fertile brains of the officers of the CRIMSON Radio Network one evening last spring when they were hunting for all original new program, the Harvard Association of Song Writers has been responsible for a juicy flowering of lyrics and jazz scores among the undergraduates...