Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inside of three closet doors, he set up others. He fastened deadly cyanide bombs (used thereabouts to kill coyotes) in such a way that they would spurt gas into the face of anyone who opened the doors. Mrs. Hord painted signs (including one adorned with skull and crossbones) on the fence and the heavy wooden win dow coverings, with the warning: DANGER. EXPLOSIVES SET TO KILL - KEEP...
...wrong," confesses Don Camillo. His eye turns to the fireplace, where the last of Peppone's marked deck is beginning to burn. The priest sighs-but he sighs not so much for his wrongdoing as for the realization that now, as the flames spurt up, it is too late to learn how an expert like Peppone marks the kings and queens...
Thoush tired, the varsity got a good run on the shell over this last quarter mile and raised the beat to 36, just enough to withstand a high-stroking Badger spurt. The two crews crossed the finish line half a length apart before hundreds of coeds jammed on sorority docks which jut into the lake...
...their first three races, the Crimson lightweights relied upon big men, whose power was counted upon to offset any deficiencies in their rowing techniques. As a consequence, they have had to come from behind in every race. The first time out, against Tech, their late spurt succeeded; but they have had two successive defeats as a result of too high an early stroke and too late a spurt...
...mile, he entered his two best men, Mike Stanley and Meader, not counting on trouble from Crimson sophomore Al Wills. A dark-horse entry, Wills had previously run only the half-mile this season. Taking the lead at the 880 mark, he won in 4:27.3 minutes, despite a spurt by Stanley with 300 yards...