Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terror. Accounts also differ as to the details of General Mannerheim's conduct in Finland's civil war, but the bold outlines are clear. When he reached Helsinki he found the city, and Finland, in chaos. Rioting had been going on since March. A Red Guard had sprung up in support of the Social Democrat Party, which had just lost its majority in the Diet. A White Guard was also being organized around officers of the old Imperial Army, had succeeded in getting arms & ammunition smuggled into the port of Vaasa, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Mannerheim went...
...history in which quiet periods of snail-paced growth alternate with violent outbursts of expansion, a history so uniquely American that it should be called a career rather than a development. The Harvard of today, with its capital of 143 million of dollars and its population of 8000, has sprung up within the last 90 years, though its name has been honored for over three centuries. Bur about ten years ago this rate of growth suddenly began to fall, a fact bound to produce many a knotty problem of policy. President Conant has taken note of the common origin...
...overwhelming majority of the investigators expressed the opinion at that time that the House was being engulfed in the quagmire from which it had sprung, but at such a slow rate that there need be no alarm...