Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ordered a 1,000,000-man increase in the armed forces, to a total of 3,500,000 by spring...
...lines were written last spring when Shaw, seven years short of his target centenary and bored with old age, was to be seen stumping about Ayot Saint Lawrence with a contax camera. Neighbors watched him focus on the village show places. "That must be hard work, sir," said Postmistress Jisbella Lyth. Tiring, said Shaw. Last week the village had a chance to see Shaw's photographs. Bernard Shaw's Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence (price one shilling)* went on sale in Mrs. Lyth's post-office shop...
When Rudolf Bing set out last spring to improve the "visual aspects" of the Metropolitan Opera, one of the first eyesores he operated on was the Met's stumbling opera ballet. Since dancing appears in some of the most popular operas in the standard repertory, e.g., Carmen, Tannhäuser, Traviata, La Gioconda, Bing aimed to get the Met variety considerably higher on its toes. He handed the responsibility to Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre; Lucia, in turn, delegated the job to her principal choreographer, greying, London-born Antony (Pillar of Fire) Tudor...
...story of Lucien in politics is told in The Telegraph, part two of Lucien Leuwen, the unfinished "third masterpiece" of French Novelist Stendhal. With last spring's publication of part one, The Green Huntsman (TIME, June 26), Stendhal's story is now available in English for the first time...
When Lloyd Jordan was appointed football coach last spring, one of his first acts was to name as his trainer Jack Fadden, a native of Brookline and, at the time, the property of the New York football Yankees. This surprised many people, since a new coach does not ordinarily bring in his own trainer. But Jordan's coaching methods place great emphasis on proper conditioning and John Patrick Fadden is one of the finest practitioners of his trade available...