Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the program's decentralization have sprung many of its worst features. The Commission should recommend that a central board or agency be established to handle all investigations of Government employees. Staffed by experts in such cases, a central agency would be in a far better position to make judicious decisions than are the separate administrators now in charge of these matters...
...Natural Science section across the hall, Andrew R. Lang, assistant professor of Metallurgy, delivered an opening lecture to five undergraduate residents, who appeared to discuss the origins of life on earth. He told his audience how life may have sprung from primitive pools of green slime, or arrived from outer space in the form of microscopic spores. The five listened...
Good blocking sprung wingback Dexter Lewis loose on two consecutive plays yesterday afternoon, as he ran for "touchdowns" in his first intensive practice of the season...
...great characters in fiction enjoy this glorious distinction of seeming too lifelike to have sprung from an inkwell. Like Robinson Crusoe, they have often been modeled on real people. Now Irving Wallace, a Hollywood scenarist with a yen for bizarre personalities, has had the bright idea of telling the life stories of 20-odd famed originals. Among them...
...tyranny to democratic freedom in "the most daring mass escape of modern times." The odd odyssey is made in a grubby old wood-burning sternwheeler, built in 1885 and capable of six knots in a following wind. Her captain is a Yank (John Wayne) whom the village elders have sprung from a Communist brain lavatory. Resisting psychological detergents in a unique way, ex-Prisoner Wayne has stayed anti-Communist by remaining pro-female; whenever the Reds got too rough, he paid them no mind, just conjured up an image of "Baby," a composite of the girl-in-every-port...