Word: springing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vatican in Rome, as the President's personal representative to talk and work for peace in Europe before all hell breaks loose this spring, will go Myron Charles Taylor, 65-year-old retired head of United States Steel Corp., most recently chairman of the Evian conference on international refugees...
Haas-Kehler, over six feet, weighed 185 pounds. "We dubbed him Killer Kehler," said Henry Dunn, boxing promoter who knew him when he was fighting in Montreal last spring, "because of his wicked punch...
...Friday, Sept. 6, 1872, Sheriff Grover Cleveland hanged matricidal Patrick Morrissey, 29. One of the sheriff's deputies braced himself with brandy, offered to spring the trap. "No," said Grover Cleveland, "I have to do it myself. I am the sheriff and that's part of the sheriff's duties...
These sentiments did credit to Dr. Frank Buchman, who first interested Mr. Woodring (and many another Washington politico) in moral reformation last spring. But, said Harry Woodring after he had finished his speech: "I'm really not a Buchmanite. I think Moral Rearmament is a great, tremendous influence for good, and it ought to be encouraged. I'm very strong for it. But I'm not a convert." Uplifted by a pile of commendatory messages and cablegrams from as far off as Ireland, Mr. Woodring then went back to his business of rearming the U. S. Army...