Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane is placed on the trailer and the pilot climbs aboard and buttons himself in. The trailer's arms unfold and tilt the nose upward. Then the pilot starts the jet engine. When it is turning at full power, an enormous flame and a cloud of smoke spurt out of the booster bottle. In a few seconds the plane is airborne. The exhausted rocket drops off, and the pilot proceeds. His sudden departure resembles a scene from a space-flight movie, and the ground around the launcher is overcast with smoke, but at no time does the pilot experience...
Princeton, employing a tight man-to-man defense, got off to a strong start, and led by 16 points at the mid-point of the first half. The varsity closed the gap to 34-26 at the half, and trailed 51-48 when the Tigers began their final spurt. A Princeton freeze in the final minutes killed any hopes of a Crimson...
With a final six-minute spurt, the freshman basketball team took a 78 to 63 game from Providence College, for its first victory of the season. Tony Messier led the Crimson with 22 points, although Providence's Lionel Jenkins was the game's high scorer with...
...Eagles netted their tieing goal at 11:54 and followed with the deciding tally four minutes later. The Crimson, as usual, attempted to put on a final spurt in the closing minutes but seemed too tired to fight the puck away from stalling B.C. linemen...
...water. He has attacked everything from college football to the U.S. Navy, and has been denounced as regularly and heatedly as he denounces. Last week in Live Oak, Fla., Alabama-born Bill Huie was once again in a cauldron of boiling water, and enjoying every spurt of steam. This time the heat was generated by the case of Ruby McCollum...