Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year off turned out to be "something like a protracted vacation," he says. Collins wrote music reviews irregularly for The Boston Phoenix, usually in spurts of several articles, with long breaks in between each spurt. He relied on his family for financial support, and aside from regularly scheduled sessions with his analyst, lived largely on a day-to-day basis. "In a sense I was really longing for regimentation. I found it difficult to provide internal discipline. By the end of the year, I was tired of having to make my mind up about what to do each...
...Cliffe guarded a slim lead in the early going but a tough press coupled with some red-hot shooting, (Hildy Meyers 8-for-12 from the floor in the first half) led the cagers to an 18-2 spurt at the close of the half and sent the host club into the locker room with a comfortable 42-21 lead...
With a final sharp spurt, the stock market last week finished its most explosively bullish month ever. Easily shaking off some midweek profit taking, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 24 points on the last two trading days to close on Friday at 975, its highest mark since October 1973. That brought the rise for all of January to 123 points, the most for any month in history. Even more astonishing was the hectic pace of trading on the New York Stock Exchange: January rewrote every volume record in the Big Board book. The month witnessed the highest turnover...
...startling spurt in volume reflects a fortunate confluence of willing sellers and even more eager buyers. Odd-lot statistics (those on trades of fewer than 100 shares) indicate that the sellers are largely individual investors. Many had ridden their stocks up from the market's 1974 low of 577.6 on the Dow Jones average, and now stood to recover some of their earlier losses or, in some cases, to pocket profits. As 663 of the 2,111 issues on the Big Board touched 1975-76 highs last week, some of their owners began to sell...
Whatever the reason for the strong Christmas sales performance, it can only please economists, who have been counting on consumer buying to keep the recovery rolling, and who were mildly worried by a flattening out of retail sales last fall after a strong spurt in spring and early summer. It is true that sales comparisons are distorted by the fact that the 1974 Christmas season was a disaster; discounted for inflation, this year's holiday volume may not have matched and at any rate did not exceed 1973's. All the same, many retailers will be stocking...