Word: spurted
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...Piece. Silently and smoothly the X-1 cut away from the B29. For an instant it drove forward and downward. Then Chuck turned on the nitrogen pressure and fired the lox and alcohol in one of the rocket chambers. A spurt of white dots (visible shock waves) spurted out behind and grew into a long plumelike "contrail" (condensed water vapor...
...great wall. Chuck scavenged the last of the dangerous oxygen and alcohol from the system by flushing it with nitrogen. Then he began the long glide to earth, listening to the clock ticking on the instrument panel. He somehow found this "awful boring," he says, and welcomed his spurt of interest when he landed the X-1 at close to 165 miles an hour and rolled to a stop on Muroc's smooth surface...
...some lines, buying had dropped off in spite of price cuts. Nash cut its prices $20 to $120; Willys, whose recent cut had brought no notable sales spurt, went on a four-day week. Car dealers complained that the spring buying wave had been a ripple instead of the hoped-for comber...
...Bellboy spurt, climaxed by Mike Post' foul shot, brought the score to 36 all at the end of the regular game. Two foul shots by Goldsmith and one by John Altrocchi finally gave Lowell the lead in the overtime period, and the Bellboys successfully froze the ball in the last minute and a half...
...second half spurt brought Bill Barclay's squad to within six points of the victors after six minutes. The score stood at 45 to 39. But the team never was able to close the gap entirely...