Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposite direction. McFarlane, who would succeed Clark as National Security Adviser in October 1983, was worried that U.S. strategic-military policy was breaking down. The nuclear freeze movement was gaining ground in Congress. Negotiations in Geneva were going nowhere. McFarlane could foresee a time when the Soviets might spurt far ahead in the missile race...
After a Brown timeout, the visitors served preliminary notice of their intention to run, dashing off a 14-1 spurt and capturing the lead forever...
...more points from the Encino, Calif. native doing a second unanswered eight-point spurt--this one just after halftime--put Harvard...
...brief Harvard spurt, led by Anna Collins (who had 13 of her 14 points in the second-half), gave the hosts a 43-34 lead with about 10 minutes remaining in the game...
America had emerged from the long tunnels of the Depression and World War II, and LIFE was there to record the nation as it began its spurt of unparalleled growth. LIFE: The Second Decade 1946-1955 (New York Graphic Society; 200 pages; $29.95) follows LIFE'S earlier photo-journal of the previous ten years...