Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citizens' committees began to sprout and shout across the land. One, organized by Donald Nelson, attacked the Vandenberg amendment as "contrary to the historic constitutional principle of civilian control over all phases of American national policy...
...vast and desolate landscape. The convulsive and catastrophic shapes of the rocks will give a frozen notion of geological delirium. A silver spoon ten meters long will sprout directly from a rock of iron. Inside the spoon . . . two fried eggs . . . fire red. . . . Twilight shadow and the white of the eggs and the silver spoon will reflect the light of the sky . . . very precisely aquamarine...
...There is the eager young Yaleman who, after feeling that his "generation" has been "betrayed," first by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, then by the Marxists, winds up ballyhooing bellywash on national hookups. There is the Purity League's investigation of the Booklover when its personal columns sprout a rash of "advertisements by 'gentlemen of robust constitution' in search of 'non-prudish ladies responsive to the new dance rhythms...
Guatemala's Arévalo government also recently introduced a steep profits tax, despite a concession wangled from Ubico forbidding new taxation on United Fruit till 1981. Bargaining is tough. With huge new plantations in the Dominican Republic ready to sprout bananas by 1947, United Fruit can threaten to shut down in Guatemala, as it did in Colombia when disease and the government moved...
Tabor Academy took the measure Saturday of an informal civilian crew which traveled to Marion, Connecticut, to compete over a one-mile course. A rough day contributed to the three-quarter length margin of defeat for the Crimson oarsmen, who included W. M. Pickles at bow; W. L. Sprout, 2; Polhemus, 3; H. P. Hall, 4; T. R. Morse, Jr., 5; W. L. Saltonstall, 6; T. A. Haymond, 7; R. A. Pellaton, Jr., 8; and D. R. Foster, coxswain...