Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...locked up. Mildred used to amuse Allied troops in World War II with English-language propaganda broadcasts from Germany. Typical pitch for defection: "Throw down those little old guns and toddle off home. There's no getting the Germans down!" Mildred, if she lives so long, will be sprung in 1979, not counting the ten years off that she could get for good behavior. But it was learned last week that Traitor Gillars, eligible for parole last March, took her stand two months earlier, gave no reason but waived all rights to review and parole...
...Lincoln Album (Caedmon) into an uneasy collection of pieties at odds with the vigor of Lincoln's own prose. Cyril Cusack, trying to milk every drop from the "dense and driven" poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Caedmon), lingers with such lip-smacking satisfaction over Hopkins' sprung rhythms, internal rhymes and clashing dissonances-"lush-kept plush-capped sloe"-that the effect is a little like a gold-threaded, jewel-bedecked gown that dazzles the eye but numbs the senses...
...Tshekedi sent a team of oxen to haul it out); later (1950) for stormily objecting to the celebrated marriage of his nephew Seretse Khama to Ruth Williams, a blonde Englishwoman, when Britain feared that any provocation would prompt Daniel Malan's Union of South Africa to seize Bechuanaland. Sprung from London exile, Tshekedi returned (1956) to Bechuanaland, helped set up a voting council to replace the autocratic chief he had so long exemplified...
Most hopeful of all, public enthusiasm for the Common Market far outstrips that of officialdom. Since last January at least 15 specialized magazines and reviews devoted to the Common Market have sprung up; so has UNICE, a Common Marketwide counterpart of the U.S.'s National Association of Manufacturers. And throughout the Six, industrial amalgamations and alliances are being negotiated at a dizzying rate. Italy's Alfa Romeo has signed car-marketing agreements with France's Renault and Germany's N.S.U. Daimler-Benz (Mercedes) is negotiating with Peugeot, and France's Conord (household appliances) has already...
...Heavy-industry facilities grew up to produce turret lathes, 50,000-kw. generators, 100-ton forgings. Tin and aluminum refineries have sprung...