Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Engineer Roman Kuzovatkin turns a tap on a loop of steel pipe that juts from a snowbank near Samotlor. A spurt of fine black oil sprays the surrounding drifts. Moments later, a helicopter whips up a snowstorm as it takes off to ferry equipment to construction crews that are dynamiting the frozen earth to lay new pipelines. Farther to the north in the Nadym gas fields hard by the Arctic Circle, the long nights are thunderously lit by giant flares of blazing gas. It will soon light Western Europe and may one day heat New York. Two thousand miles...
Coma's squad, which was featured in an article in the current issue of Sports Illustrated, would not cooperate and matched Harvard basket for basket until the Crimson's spurt to its nine point cushion in the second half...
...four-goal spurt in the third period enabled B.U. to take Dartmouth, 6-2, and in the next game the Terriers trounced Air Force, 10-4 B.U. has also downed Lake Superior State College, 6-5, and the University of Minnesota at Duluth...
However, Emmanuel was not to be kept down. With an offensive spurt late an the third quarter, the Emmanuel live regained the lead. As the final buzzer, they were up by 5 points to gain a 27.22 victory...
...toward repairing the damage that his economic performance once did to his standing with the voters. On Aug. 15, 1971, Nixon abruptly reversed the policies that he followed in his first 2½ years in the White House; as a result, he has slowed inflation and produced a remarkable spurt in national output. Gross national product in 1973 seems likely to show a rise topping even this year's biggest-ever gain (see box on next page). Democrats argue that this record looks impressive only by comparison with the inflationary recession of 1970. Perhaps, but it has been good...