Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Formal football games sprung up again, and the Crimson faced the University of Connecticut in its first official game since 1942, winning 7-0. The band and the big drum also appeared after a long period of dormancy, and the cheerleaders were on the field again. The crowds were still at wartime levels, though, when informal play was the only option for diehard football fans...
...missiles that he boasted "could take out a 747." Customs didn't have any more money to spend but delayed making arrests. "We were trying to lure the large business figures [in China] to the States," says Rollin Klink, head of Customs in San Francisco. Officials finally sprung the trap after learning that the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times were on to the sting. Still, one important figure, Ma, is at large and may have escaped to China. Ku and Chen are under arrest, along with several Chinese and American collaborators. And those amateur actors at Customs...
...lost in the process is to be wildly ungrateful for all that was gained. "I am a woman and not a test-mouse!" reads a typical quote. USA Today, presumably pressed for space, published only a few of these gems, leaving the rest to the imagination, whence has sprung the following complete transcript...
...into a biotech minipower. This improbable endeavor ranks as one of the most idiosyncratic of President Fidel Castro's ventures, and despite the anticapitalist rhetoric that resurfaced during last week's May Day celebrations, it may well prove to be the most profitable. The flourishing technological barrio that has sprung up on the outskirts of Havana is not only supplying state-of-the-art health products to local hospitals and clinics but also selling more and more of its goods abroad, bringing in badly needed foreign currency in excess of $100 million a year...
Within Area Four, several groups and organizations have sprung up to rekindle the sense of community which residents say is implicit in the neighborhood's tradition...