Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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HIGHER PORK PRICES are expected this fall following farmers' 16% cutback in the spring pig crop in widespread rebellion against last year's low prices...
Elections Next Spring. But Turkey's soldiers were slowly realizing the job of cleaning up after the Menderes regime was bigger than even Cemal Gursel first supposed. The university professors working on a new constitution now do not expect to finish it until well into July. If elections cannot be held in the fall, they may have to be put off until spring, since large parts of Turkey are snowed in during the winter. The delay has the advantage of allowing time for political regrouping, since an immediate election would undoubtedly produce a landslide for the Republicans and leave...
Soon after reaching their orbit, the two satellites detached themselves from the second-stage rocket. A small explosion separated the satellites themselves, and a spring pushed them apart at about one mile per hour. Their radio transmitters kept sounding loud and clear...
Automatic Door Bottom. A gadget that automatically shuts off under-door drafts, dust and noise was put on sale by Minneapolis' Reese Metal Weatherstrip Co. Easily fitted onto wooden doors, the device has a torsion spring that automatically retracts a felt-edged aluminum bar when the door opens, allowing the door to swing freely over carpets or rugs, then forces the bar snugly against the threshold when it closes. Price: $2.75 to $3.45, depending on size and color...
...seems to have lost faith in his audience. Lest the reader miss the parallels, he tells his tale in the pidgin poetry of the conventional translator. What he has set out to do, says the author, is tell of "a yellow Sunday in the last days of a good spring, while . . . pale threads, drawn out from dark hidden places, began to be wound inexorably together . . . until there had been wrought, out of such tenuous white and fleeting things, a taut tripwire for the souls of men, destined, before its mindless work was done, to bring many tall sure riders down...