Word: springing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brown earth began to fleck the foothills of the Alps, and drove the skiers higher; in Paris, where a sudden blazing sun brought tables back to cafe terraces and cheerful strolling crowds back to the Champs-Elysées-Europe last week was poised between winter and the dread spring that may launch the great offensive...
...frowns-membership of Union Now jumped to 10,000 in Britain; reports of Hitler's real peace terms were rumored in city after city. But no official acts encouraged them. As Europeans noted with fear in their hearts the brightening skies, the lengthening days, the first flowers of spring, it remained to be seen whether the U. S. envoy could smoke out from London and Paris the terms of peace that would be a sufficient answer to the warlike challenge of Berlin...
Spectator Man sighed with comparative relief, settled back into his yoke, put his hands in the pockets of his new four-button coat, and waited for spring...
...spring breathed sweetly on Europe, as the first crocuses peeped up in French mountain slopes, as the first storks returned to Belfort and other birds started taking mates, the wings of war rustled more and more ominously. Scouting planes from both sides of the Maginot-Siegfried stalemate soared over the enemy's interior now in massed squadrons instead of singly. Over the North Sea, Nazi bombers dived with increasing fury and frequency on Allied merchant convoys and British trawlermen. The crew of a Dornier bomber flying inside the Belgian line on the Luxembourg border felt so springlike when three...
...abandoned also, with that part of the Finnish Army probably retreating to join the forces north of Lake Laatokka. Apparently the Finns hoped, by thus splitting their Isthmus army, to harass the Russian rear with guerrilla tactics, keep the Russians too busy to organize a drive on Helsinki before spring...