Word: spurted
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...exhaustion is often a stand-in for anxiety. Most students - particularly comparatively high achievers who have already gotten into college - learn to use the stress that accompanies a test as a prod to action and concentration. The experts call the phenomenon "achievement motivation," or a kind of competitive energy spurt...
...Leading only 5-3, Harvard responded on the ensuing face-off. After gaining possession, captain midfielder Nick Smith raced up field, drove through the defense, and ripped a close range shot past Harrison. Smith’s score, his second of the season, ignited a 4-0 spurt that iced the game for the Crimson. In the fourth period, senior midfielder Nick Sapia tallied his first goal of the game, and Cohen notched number four and five for the game to complete the run. Cohen’s fifth goal, scored with 9:21 left in the contest, came after...
...Harvard recovered in the second period and bounced back from the Bear’s three-goal spurt...
...incidents have garnered only limited attention in state-run media, which dismiss most as the work of criminal minds or hooligans. But witnesses, who have posted videos and camera-phone shots online of burning motorcycles and farmers battling police, say the spurt of violence is a sign that the public has finally had it with corruption...
...supervised beyond simply national regulators. Every other crisis has been dealt with by countries taking action to solve their national problems. This crisis can be dealt with only by us acting internationally. Over the next 20 years, if we can solve these problems, you'll see another big spurt of growth in the world economy. I'm very confident about the future. (Read "Europe's Economic-Stimulus Message: Enough Already...