Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only 58 seconds gone in the period, the score was 28-0. Nystrom kicked off to Jim Joslin who fumbled on the Crimson 21-yard line, and recovered by Nystrom himself on the 23. Morris carried to the 15, and on the next play substitute fullback Al Manzier was sprung free up the middle for a touchdown. He was hit hard on the three, but was able to hold his feet...
Parking for Women. The new centers, like many of the mammoth suburban shopping areas that have sprung up in the last ten years, are designed to siphon shoppers from an entire region. Mondawmin, for example, is the most convenient retail center for 400,000 people within a 15-minute drive. With huge free parking lots laid out so that cars are never more than a few hundred feet from stores, the decentralized centers spare their customers the fender-bending frustration of wrestling cars through downtown traffic. With an eye out for women drivers, the developers of Seven Corners have even...
...muffling thickness of the prison walls a macabre chant broke the silence. Some 170 political prisoners shouted in unison, "Eoka, Eoka," and "Down with Harding!" Prison stools slammed against stone walls. At the moment calculated for the hanging, someone cried out "Goodbye, Stelios, goodbye," and then the traps were sprung...
...Corner. Like the herds of problem youths that have sprung up in other places, and in other generations. Britain's Teddy Boys are the byproduct of great social upheaval. Born for the most part of poor parents in the slums of Britain's big cities, they had sketchy education and their home life was almost nonexistent. Thanks to the war, they spent much of their childhood herded together in shelters, or evacuated in groups into an alien countryside where the activities of all city boys are regarded with cold suspicion. Back in the cities again, they began...
...Building. Last winter, just before an 8 o'clock TV rehearsal, a call came: Would she appear on the 9:30 show at the Copacabana that night? The regular star, Billy Daniels, had been accused of shooting somebody in a saloon row, and couldn't get sprung in time. "When I got to the club, they didn't want to let me in. I had on a leather jacket and black wool slacks. I looked like a motorcycle kid. I had eight minutes to dress and get on the floor. It wasn't until...