Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quit as contract rider for the famed Greentree Stable, now sleeps until 9 a.m. instead of rolling out at dawn to gallop horses. His only flaw as a jockey: he sometimes tries to ride cheap horses as if they were stakes horses, confidently holding them back for a spurt that isn't in them. His chief talent, according to one horseman: "He thinks twice before other jockeys begin to think...
...final spurt that just missed being a finish in the real Frank Merriwell tradition, the Varsity soccer team scored two goals in the last five minutes of play, almost got two others, and finally had to be content with a 5 to 5 tie contest with a well-coordinated Worcester Polytechnic Institute eleven yesterday afternoon on the Business School Field...
...Dead Was He? The fact that so many reasons were advanced was a good indication that something was wrong with the U.S. economy. The market's spurt last spring to the bull-market high in May was in anticipation of the lush profits caused by 1) the huge demand and 2) huge wartime savings. But for many a company the big profits had not materialized; rising costs had chewed them up. Nor was there any hope that the rise in costs would stop. Commodity prices, up 22% since the end of the war. were still soaring. Labor efficiency...
Besides the three run rally in the fifth, the Crimson nicked the sailors for all-important single tallies in the second and sixth. The Squantum scoring consisted of two runs in the fourth and another two in a last inning spurt in the seventh...
...days of June had come a tremendous spurt in U.S. shipping to the hunger areas-some 477,000 long tons of grain and grain products. By June's end the half-year goal of 6,000,000 long tons was in sight. The U.S. was actually short on deliveries by about one-twelfth, but this deficit was already in the pipelines...