My momentary bliss state took a heat-seeking missile as my burly Scottish expedition guide suddenly sprang from a nearby tent and blindside-punched me, sending me sprawling onto the glacier moraine.
The mostly silent guides, who sprung up unannounced along the route, included a pleasant woman sitting in the second floor of a bookstore; a woman in a large white hat who spoke only Spanish, very fast; and a male dancer whose smiles seemed reassuringly unscripted.
This might happen because your guide rod or guide rails are really gummed up (to the point where it looks as if there is a wad of Juicy Fruit in there), your guide spring is too weak or your chamber design is bad.
The result of all that loafing is a kind of field guide to spring in New York; the signs of spring — some familiar, some strange with the passage of time — have been pressed into the pages of Talk of the Town, like flowers into a book.
Besides, those Marie Antoinette-style guides to make-believe poverty sprang in large part from the keyboards of comfortably-off journalists whose mortgage payments had just been shrunk to a dinkily modest size by a – still unchallenged – post-crisis policy of near-zero interest rates.
Gaming the old system abounded: until the Department for Education blocked the tactic, schools would enter pupils early and often for exams to get the sought-after C. A cottage industry sprang up in guiding schools towards different subjects and more exotic options, according to perceived difficulty, until some were blocked by the DfE or Ofqual, the exams watchdog.
The term comes from the Greek word for "to steer", and inspiration for some of the early work on cybernetics sprang from automatic guiding systems developed during World War II for guns or radar antennae.
In some rural areas on the edge of wildlife-rich national parks, new tour guide associations have sprung up, he says.
The stabilizing and actuator fins, which helped to guide the missile to its target, were stored folded in the canister and sprang into position after launching.
"Sprang up," not "sprung up".
