Word: spurted
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...course Baby Mama isn?t his movie. It?s a chick flick, with the emphasis on the hatching. Comedies almost always run out of gas toward the end; the writer is like a parent on Christmas Eve, desperately wrapping up his presents. But this movie finds one last spurt to send the characters and the audience out happy. The closing-credits song, the Ronettes? ?Be My Baby,? never seemed more welcome or appropriate. For this is a comedy with the old-time blend of wit and sentiment. Years from now, when you stumble across...
...hate relationship between a spinster and her domineering mother - won the then 26-year-old a handful of awards and the first of many Tony nominations. Since then, he has been selling out theaters from Broadway to the West End with seven plays, all written in a 10-month spurt during a bout of unemployment...
...have been inserting itself into a part of Iraq that we don't know very well-the south-and taking sides against what is probably the most popular mass movement in Shi'ite Iraq. But the Petraeus battle plan apparently includes an anti-Sadrist move, which may mean a spurt of violence as widespread and vicious as the worst of the Sunni insurgency. Is that why the general wants a "pause" in the U.S. withdrawal this summer...
...opening period, the Big Green closed the first half on a 22-10 run to give Dartmouth a 42-30 lead at the break. The Big Green netted four first-half three pointers, including back-to-back treys as part of an 8-0 spurt with just over three minutes remaining in the opening frame. On the game, Dartmouth outrebounded Harvard, 39-29, pulling down 17 offensive rebounds to Harvard’s nine. “We just didn’t bring it,” junior guard Niki Finelli said. “We were...
...Harvard goes on a quick 5-0 spurt, capped by a three from Jeremy Lin (Did you expect anyone else?) [Yale 75, Harvard...