Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jose A. Mora, Secretary General of the OAS, spoke Wednesday at a luncheon given at the Pan American Union to spur the Latin American fund drive...
...other principals, John Ross as the Younger Mortimer and Paul Schmidt as Gaveston, maintain the quality of acting. Ross, especially, uses his voice to advantage and suggests the energy and temper of a Hot-spur in his court and battle scenes. Gaveston, Edward's favorite, begins slowly, but comes to life in his dialogues with Edward and in his dealings with the disapproving nobility. Like the other principals, he depends on more than vocal pitch to show his character, and punctuates his speeches skillfully with breaths and stops...
There had long since ceased to be any doubt that the Senate would pass the tax cut. What continued to fret the Johnson Administration was the possibility that the bill would be so amended as to make it ineffectual as a spur to the U.S. economy...
Science keeps discovering new worlds and industry keeps conquering them-sometimes absorbing a few casualties in the process. After the transistor was invented, it caused trouble for many vacuum-tube producers, later suffered itself from overproduction and slashed prices. The transistor went on to spur the growth of the U.S. electronics industry to a record $16 billion. But now it has a rival-the microcircuit, a tiny device that represents a bigger advance over the transistor than the transistor did over the bulky vacuum tube. Last year some $20 million worth of microcircuits (mostly as missile components) were sold...
...group from 11.2 per thousand to 41.2. Some girls neglect to use contraceptives, psychologists report, because they consciously or unconsciously want a child, others resent the planned, deliberate aspect; they think it "nicer" to get carried away on the spur of the moment. College girls have been known to take up collections for a classmate who needed an abortion, and some have had one without skipping a class...