Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christmas-paroled (last on a list of 66 prisoners) in Indiana: onetime Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, D. C. Stephenson, 63, who had served 30-odd years for second-degree murder, been sprung in 1950 but was clapped back into prison for jumping his parole...
Three big projects in one week were quite a feat even for Pittsburgh, where, in the past decade, 50 major downtown buildings have sprung up (cost: $130 million) and 4,000 off-street parking spaces have been created. In the Golden Tri angle business district, where no new office building had been put up between 1930 and 1945, one-fourth of the area has been rebuilt in ten years, raising assessed property value by 25%. Now Pittsburgh is opening the second round of its rebirth. All told, $150 million worth of new buildings are under construction or due to start...
...much hatred. The young Republic of Syria, independent after World War II, joined the invasion of Israel in 1948 and suffered resounding defeat. Its army then seized power, has remained in the foreground through five coups and some 20 Cabinets. Out of this turmoil of political weakness has sprung the most active native Communist movement in the Arab world...
...used in the second period for another touchdown when, with a second down and nine yards to go situation on his own 22, quarterback Winterbauer, on the option play, pitched out to McGill. The blocking in the line took out the backer-up and the end, and McGill was sprung loose...
...University of California has maintained a vigdrous program of expansion since it was established at Berkeley in 1868. Since 1912, extension campuses have sprung up in Davis, Riverside, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles...