Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Jack to his job as Manhattan Borough president-from which he had suspended himself two months before. Of Manhattan Borough's 1,800,000 resident citizens, the only people who seemed happy were Jack himself and a clutch of political underlings who greeted him in his office with spring blossoms, cheers and a big sign: WELCOME BACK, MR. PRESIDENT. Said Hulan Jack: "I'm just bubbling over with happiness...
Farmers & Flyers. Last week the foundation announced a rich crop of 1,259 winners, selected from 8,800 nominees at 861 schools. They proved that potential professors can spring from almost any source. Indiana University's Ernest Lockridge, 21, son of the late novelist Ross (Raintree County) Lockridge Jr., will teach English after studying at Yale or Harvard. Ontario's Waterloo University College produced Robert Hett, 32, who quit work in a rubber company to study history, and will now go to Cornell. Shelby Faye Lewis, 19, of Louisiana's Southern University, is a pretty Negro coed...
...when he is hot, can do the same. The difference is that this year, sharpshooting Arnold Palmer, 30, has stayed happily heated up almost all the time. Ever since January, when golf pros began chasing a fast fairway dollar eastward from Los Angeles toward the big-time championships of spring and summer, Palmer has been cashing in at a record rate. By last week he had earned $24,226, more than any pro ever has this early in the season...
...pressed a button that sent a radio impulse to the telescope's big dish, and from there it was beamed into space. Pioneer V got the message. A switching device in its electronic insides shot an electric current through a fusible bolt. The bolt melted and released a spring. It pushed Pioneer V away from the third-stage rocket, whose burned-out carcass might otherwise interfere with efficient radio transmission...
...middle of the 12th century by monks imported from the Fontfroide monastery in France. As always with Cistercian monasteries, the monks had picked their site with a view to maintaining a balance between the spiritual and the useful. In the center of the main cloister bubbled a pure natural spring. The surrounding fields were and are fertile, and the blue and silver mountain peaks cupping the high valley lift the spirit as well. The Cistercians did full honor to the site with an architecture that was noble in scale, harmonious in proportion and austere in detail. Although partly in ruins...