Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs had taken stubborn Hengyang, key point on the Hankow-Canton railroad. Now, instead of continuing directly south toward Canton, they flung 120,000 troops southwest along the spur line toward Kweilin. An underprivileged Chinese Army, ill-nourished, ill-armed, ill-clad, stood before them, the Fourteenth's flyers hammered them desperately from above...
...Father. An Irishman, handsome as he is unmistakable, Father Finn rehearses his chorus in a polo shirt instead of a cassock, and can spur a choir boy to a Palestrinian high E with a flick of the eyebrow. Born 62 years ago in Boston, he became organist there at the Carmelite Monastery as a child. He began conducting Palestrina in Chicago's old St. Mary's Church in 1904, a year before he was ordained. "I was 25 years trying to find out how to conduct it," he says. In the meantime his Paulist Choristers became world famous...
This happy circumstance was no fault of management. To spur their teams into early leads, dugout bosses had grabbed up 4-F's, imported foreigners, recalled rusty old men, hired war workers on their days off, distributed daily doses of vitamins...
...faculties, 'shaped for heroic feats, despise the pliability, the intrigues and the parade through which most brilliant careers are achieved in peacetime. . . . He would be condemned to emasculation or corruption, if he lacked the grim impulse of ambition to spur him on ... the hope of playing a great role in great events...
...anonymous narrator (a German refugee) of Anna Seghers' novel of refugee life in France had never known the late anti-Nazi Mr. Weidel. But on the spur of the moment he took the dead man's suitcase. In it he found the unfinished manuscript of one of the most brilliant novels he had ever read. One of the characters seemed strangely like himself. It was as though the young refugee was destined to complete the novel with the events of his life...