Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Undesireables weren't quality. So they became reporters. Rather than the elegant tradition of Lowell, they identified with big city newspaper hacks--low paid, poorly educated men who slapped stories together for deadline, then sprung away to follow another story: Or to the nearest...
...Laurence J. Sprung '92 put it in the Esquire article, "It's a total fucking mess. Everything has become so analyzed...[that] in bed, you just don't know what's going...
...article tells the story of Larry J. Sprung '92 and Eleanor Stafford '92--students who had "given up on the idea of love" at Harvard...
These days -- these moments -- it's Seattle. One band after another has sprung from the environs of the city's fast-lane bar scene onto the national charts. The lyrical metal band Queensryche has sold more than 2 million copies of its album Empire. Alice in Chains, which lays down a kind of altered- consciousness heavy metal -- the Doors, slamming -- is approaching platinum-level sales with Facelift. Nevermind, by the Seattle-area trio Nirvana, has sold 3.5 million, and the group's single Smells Like Teen Spirit, with its arch lyric ironies and crusher guitar chords, hit Billboard...
Panjwin and Qala Diza, villages on the Iranian frontier, are smuggling centers where a vibrant and imaginative black market has sprung up. Though the area is under heavy snow, fast-buck gangs transport tools, machinery, even construction equipment to sell in Iran, returning with food and spare parts for cars and trucks. Almost all the eggs in Kurdistan come from Iran, painstakingly brought in by foot...