Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard rallied briefly several times late in the half, the best spurt coming with about eight minutes left. Down 54-44, the Crimson got hoops from Jerry O'Neil and Gallagher. An Indian basket intervened but rarely-used backcourt man Eric Gustafson threw in a 22-foot set. Gallagher one free throw and Bobby Johnson two, bringing Harvard within four...
During the last seven minutes however, the Harvard height began to tell. A strong scoring spurt garnered the Crimson a 14-point lead--sewing up the game. The pressure tactics of Wesleyan did get three Harvard players--Chris Gallagher, Jeff Grate, and Bob Kanuth--in foul trouble and won free points for Wesleyan in the closing minutes. The three Harvard players rode the last three minutes with four fouls apiece...
Regardless of Lindsay's prospects next year, his latest spurt of activity keeps his pennant flapping smartly. The trip to Los Angeles again showed him to be the consummate campaigner. Considering his official mission-to boost New York City Opera Company's opening-he traveled heavy. In addition to Mrs. Lindsay, he took his press secretary, a deputy mayor, a speechwriter and his TV consultant. Not that he appeared to need help. From the ladies in the audience Lindsay elicited the usual sighs of "divine," "beautiful." And in an even dozen appearances before students, lawyers, reporters, business leaders...
...four hours before the strike deadline. Though Chrysler was hardly happy with the generous settlement it had been forced to accept, Company Negotiators John D. Leary and William E. O'Brien greeted the accord with relief. The smallest of the Big Three automakers has been enjoying a sales spurt fueled partly by the strike at Ford. Last month was Chrysler's best October ever-and only by averting a strike could it hope to keep its momentum...
...nation managed to attack, antagonize or alienate so many of its neighbors in a single week. All around its vast perimeter, in a great circle from Russia and Japan on the north to India and Indonesia on the south, China stirred up trouble and resentment. The sudden spurt of hostility seemed prompted by an overflow of missionary zeal for Maoism, a certain amount of frustration at the difficulties encountered at home by Mao's Cultural Revolution and a new wave of China's historic xenophobia...