Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arizona desert's edge, in a broad valley twelve miles northwest of Phoenix, there were high jinks one day last week. Sprung up from the cactus in less than five months under the watering of Hollywood money. Southwest Airways' new Thunderbird Field-acting as one of 48 kindergartens for Army Airmen-was graduating its first class. Hollywood starlets trailed inspecting officers down ranks of 102 grey-clad cadets, who had a hard time keeping eyes front...
SHORTLY before the outbreak of war in 1939, Clarence Streit wrote "Union Now," which was described as "a proposal for a federal union of the leading democracies." The influence which that book had upon American readers was phenomenal, and Union Now organizations sprung up throughout the country. "Union Now With Britain" brings the plan up to the minute, and discusses a federalized world of democracies in the light of the threatened invasion of England and the passage...
...which has held them in relative obscurity. Somehow or other, grand opera as it grew up on the continent never clicked in England. Even after the Italian style of declamatory singing was assimilated in the seventeenth century, opera remained a blood brother of the masque from which it had sprung, never getting past the stage of a masque with incidental music. Venus and Adonis is such a masque: an elaborate little puppet opera, composed in 1685 as an offering to James II by John Blow, Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal, and Organist at Westminster Abbey. Most...
...through the Mississippi Delta out to the oil and cattle country in West Texas, there was many a town which had doubled in population since last spring's census, many a village which had multiplied so many times over that no one could keep track. New towns had sprung up where none had been before. Farmers left their land to work on construction at wages up to $90 a week; some of them made more money in a single month than they were used to making in a whole year...
...eight-million tons that have come into British control since war began. British ports are crowded with freighters waiting their turn-but so are Britain's shipyards crowded with tonnage under repair. For many a ship, which the Germans wrongly claim to have sunk, has had enough plates sprung by near bomb hits to make it unseaworthy. The truth of Britain's tonnage position is not all told in Admiralty admissions of sinkings, however honest, any more than it is in German claims. Last week, on the very heels of Mr. Churchill's tonnage speech, the German...