Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That spurt was one for all the golfing ages. Whitcombe's spurt was as fine a one, but there is this difference between the two, as there is so often between Hagen and the other man. Hagen just won and the other man just didn...
...started out as a typical Mufi Hanneman-type ho-hum affair, as early in the first half the Eagles flew off on a 16-2 spurt which found the Crimson down 28-11 halfway to intermission...
machine, the cagers almost totally dismantled themselves in the first half. A short-lived 3-2 Harvard lead was violently turned around by a 16-2 Minutemen spurt, and the 36-21 UMass margin at intermission was obnoxiously hinting at last place for the hoopsters...
There was a warning signal as early as last spring, when the real rate of growth in the G.N.P. suddenly dropped by half. That was easily explained-and foreseen-because the 9.2% spurt in the first quarter was so great that it could not be sustained. Sure enough, it fell to 4.5% in the second quarter. Main reason: businessmen early in the year had been on a buying spree to replenish their recession-depleted inventories, and once they got those stockpiles up to par, they cooled their purchasing...
...forlorn. I shrink from recalling that greeting because it hangs in my memory like a portent of betrayal. I hope it really meant that hope is possible. Already the man had culled suspicion in a stolidly bourgeois farming couple as he pressed for workers' movements, and in a spurt of desperation and elation, invoked Che Guevara's name. I guess he'll learn...