Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...detailed 77-page statement to Republican State's Attorney Benjamin Adamowski, Burglar Morrison told of a year spent stealing with the cops of the Summerdale District. Morrison filched antifreeze for his colleagues in the winter, outboard motors in the spring, television sets as the World Series rolled around. Generally, Morrison kept what cash he could find, and the stolen merchandise went to the cops, who arranged to have it hauled away. "They wouldn't let me get by over a week," he complained in his statement, "without asking me to give them a night of my services...
...suburb of the placid city of Geneva, Mme. Marie Zumbach returned home one spring evening in 1958 from a weekly parish meeting. As she entered the back door, she heard her husband Charles scream for help. Four shots rang out, and a man came running toward her, chased her out into the garden and shot her down. The attacker returned to the house, savagely and repeatedly stabbed the dying Charles Zumbach, then mounted his bicycle and pedaled away into the night...
...tentative heralding of distant spring was a welcome break in the routine at Grandview Hills No. 1, the northernmost oil-drilling operation in Canada's history. Only the day before, a dropped wrench, crystallized by the -42° cold, shattered like an icicle when it hit the derrick floor...
...strong force firmly applying upward pressure was the continued rise in earnings (see below). Said Josephthal & Co. Partner Sidney B. Lurie: "There is still vitality in the earnings uptrend which the market is perhaps underestimating at current levels. Personally, I expect much higher individual stock prices in the spring...
Where the Boys Are, by Glendon Swarthout. A comical investigation of a spring phenomenon: the collegian swarm to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the action is as hot and horizontal as the sand...