Word: spurt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon Administration wants more. It is hoping for a 6% spurt in real growth for the year-or an astronomical 8% if measured from this year's strike-depressed fourth quarter to next year's fourth quarter. That unlikely rate of gain would lift the G.N.P. to $1.060 trillion. Beyond that, Nixon is aiming to go into the 1972 elections having achieved both reasonably full employment and reasonably stable prices. Almost all economists outside the President's immediate circle agree that such a feat is nearly impossible in such a short time...
...campaign seemed an ill-concocted brew of partisan bile. Much of it was politics-as-usual, but the last spurt of violence and anger -coupled with Nixon's bellicose rejoinder-took it sharply beyond the ordinary. Anti-Administration members of Congress who survive the elections may return to Capitol Hill less inclined than ever to give Nixon an even break, especially as 1972 approaches. Quite possibly the broader political irritations will subside, as they traditionally do after a campaign. But for the present, the 1970 electoral battling left the land still more riven than it was before the skirmishing...
...September price spurt might be a misleading one-month wiggle-as the Administration claims it is. There are disquieting portents, however, that the index in October will be no better, and perhaps worse. The full impact of increases on new cars will be reflected in the October index, and fuel oil prices are also expected to boost the figures...
...easy to understand the unhappiness he felt when he saw Quirk go by him at the two-mile point, when Frontierro was second behind Spengler. He warned Quirk that such an energetic spurt so early in the race would "kill" him, and the two engaged in a short conversation...
Theatrics of Neatness. Who else has a switch on his terrace that, at the flick of a whim, causes a fountain to spurt 120 feet into the air from the center of a private lake? Johnson's house is a monument to the theatrics of neatness: only a bachelor could sustain such stark elegance at this pitch of obsession-one three-year-old child could reduce it all to chaos in ten minutes. It is perhaps the expression of a dilettante-in the classic sense of the word, a lover of the fine arts. It does need money...