Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After rowing the first twenty strokes at a 40 per minute pace the lights settled to a 35 per minute verge for the body of the race before hiking to 40 for the final spurt...
...final round, O'Neal spurted blood from a cut Farneti had opened under the challenger's nose in the previous round. Farneti's jab was coming home with increasing regularity and the spurt started to flow. However, O'Neal was not going to be knocked down-he kept slugging to the bell...
...Uyeda, probably the best 134 in the East, turned in a spurt at the beginning of the second period to break a 3-3 tie and beat Josh Henson...
...enraged elephant whose legs have been cut off by a circular saw. Still that calf kept a "lectle mite ahead," now and then playfully tapping the boiler front with its hind feet. At last it was too much for patience; Bill madly pulled the throttle for a final spurt, when, quite unfortunately,- sp-t-t-t-r,- the boiler ripped, all the water trickled helplessly out, and the driving-wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after six hours' travelling. I instantly determined to leave the old lady, bab and baggage, to the tender mercies...
Other pants are also covering for the future of the midi. Gauchos, the wide-cut dress-length trousers, had a brief spurt of popularity in the autumn. Paris' highly heralded "hot pants"-short shorts that make a good stab at compensating leg watchers for the loss of the mini-are expected to do a long, long business come spring. But for now, the rage is mainly for jeans. Boutique Owner and Designer Frankie Welch, whose pants sales account for 60% of her business, regards the current madness as the ultimate in fashion whimsy. "I'm from Georgia...