Word: spurt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Durno was not the only sophomore to star in the team's win. The sophomore line of Joe Cavanagh, Steve Owen, and Dan DeMichele scored four goals, including two in the three goal spurt within 22 seconds and broke the game wide open for the Crimson...
Barrios was taken to Ames and strapped into the NASA centrifuge. He was spun for half a minute at 4 Gs. X rays showed that nothing had happened, so he was whipped around again, this time for 20 seconds at 5 Gs, with a final spurt of 6 Gs. This time the experiment seemed successful: X rays indicated that the little piece of lead was safely embedded in the brain tissue around the upper ventricle. But Barrios was still being closely watched-in case he needs another trip to the centrifuge...
...Yardlings lost their opener to Springfield, 110-98, Saturday after trailing by only one point at halftime. Springfield then put on a second half spurt and drew out of Harvard's reach...
...difficulties ahead, in fact, Nixon's presidential victory was generally well received by businessmen both at home and abroad. At last week's New York Stock Exchange closing, the Dow-Jones index of 30 industrial stocks had climbed to 965.88, up 19.65 since Election Day. And the spurt, noted Ralph Creasman, president of the Lionel D. Edie & Co. investment counseling firm, would have been bigger except that "we'd already absorbed," discounted and anticipated a Nixon victory." Indeed, since the so-called "Nixon market" began its surge in August, the stock market has enjoyed a price runup...
...meetings in the White House and elsewhere on Viet Nam. I am told that top officials in the Administration have been driving very hard for an agreement on a bombing halt, accompanied possibly by a ceasefire, in the immediate future." Then the thrust: "I am also told that this spurt of activity is a cynical, last-minute attempt by President Johnson to salvage the candidacy of Mr. Humphrey. This I do not believe." Making the accusation in one breath and disavowing it in the next, he made certain that the charge would be noticed...