Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Celtics rolled to their seventeeth victory in nineteen starts last last night, as they downed the lowly Minneapolis Lakers, 108 to 98. The N.B.A. champs secured the win on a fourth period scoring spurt by Bob Cousy that put them out of the reach of the Lakers. Sharman topped Boston scoring with 21 points...
Harvard's first quarter spurt of enthusiasm dwindled to a tired trickle as the final quarter got under way, with both teams scoreless. Forward line plays broke as Brown's fullbacks and halfbacks kicked long, looping passes with the wind to their now hungry line...
...pitchers. Milwaukee's Braves, despite their unhappy habit of losing the big ones, seem to be training down into fighting trim for the decisive half of the season. Even the sixth-place Giants have come on so fast that their fans are talking of 1951, when a midsummer spurt shot them all the way to the top. And all the while, on the edge of the pack, ready to drag down the first team to falter, the trailing Pirates and Cubs are giving none of their betters an easy inning...
...spending spurt is due to inflation, which has greatly increased the cost of weapons started several years ago, plus the fact that Air Force programs are doing so well. Many planes and missiles are moving from drawing board to production line in a much shorter time than budget planners anticipated; e.g., the lead time on a B-52 bomber, formerly 30 months, is now only 15 months. Thus bills come due sooner than anticipated. While the shorter lead time has cut unit costs, the final bill for the year is higher because more planes are rolling...
...were too pessimistic. Their arithmetic was O.K., but to wait that long would be to "let the ideologists of the capitalist world go on prattling for too long a time. Let the comrade economists blush. Sometimes man must exceed his own strength by making a sudden spurt...