Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in a Pretoria prison, the gallows trap was sprung and Elifasi Msomi went to his maker. "I am satisfied," nodded Chief Manzo Iwandla, one of nine Zulus watching. "Tikoloshe did not save...
Under the New Economic Policy laid down in 1952, a conspicuous group of near-millionaires has arisen. A "Gold Coast" of California-style villas has sprung up north of Tel Aviv, where the wives of the new $50,000-a-year men vie in entertaining ambassadors or ministers at lavish dinner parties. Bustling crowds, looking like anything but refugees from East European ghettos in their crisp frocks or open-necked, short-sleeved shirts tucked into belted slacks, hurry through the streets of Tel Aviv and Haifa, bent on marketing by day, on moviegoing by night (Israel's per capita...
...farm phrases about bound-foot hobblers into a billion ears. Because Mao had said that the great mass of poor farmers were in reality pining to join collectives, "to rid themselves of their poverty," local committees proclaimed class war against "newly rich peasants and counterrevolutionaries" who had sprung up by "spontaneous capitalist influence" after Mao's original land redistributions...
...seems quite sure why the Great Awakening in volunteer hospital work has been so abrupt. Both the General and Mental Hospital Programs have sprung to life since September, 1954. Perhaps the most valid explanation for the resurgence of interest comes from Roger W. Brown, assistant professor of Social Psychology and Social Relations head tutor...
...prepared for. In the past seven years, a feverish activity has seized Moscow: broad new thoroughfares have been dynamited through the old quarters, big buildings have been lifted and put down in new alignments, broad plazas and parks have been created. Eight skyscrapers, 20 to 38 stories high, have sprung up like corn, and more than a million trees have been planted...