Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glass fragments and the steel gave off alpha rays (ionized helium atoms), beta rays (electrons) and gamma rays (natural X rays). The proportions of the rays varied with the material. The steel gave off the most gamma rays. Sometimes the radiation from a piece gave a sudden, brief spurt, much above its normal level...
Sparkplug of UNRRA's present spurt was the Royal Australian Navy's fast-talking, reddish-haired R.G.A. Jackson. He had organized Malta's submarine supply line during the island's blitz. Later, as head of the Middle East Supply Center at Cairo, he had directed the imports of 20 countries. When Herbert Lehman made him senior deputy director of UNRRA, Jackson was given a job bigger but not much different from the one at Malta...
Sporting Britons cheered each Russian goal, cried "Up the Soviets!" In a dynamic spurt the Dynamos tied up the game. Final score: Russians 3, British 3. Said the Russian announcer at game's end: "Listen, comrades in Moscow, Leningrad, Tiflis and Berlin-we have passed our first exam with honor...
...cannot get away from themselves. Guilt and remorse gnaw at their marriage until the old mother (Dame May Whitty) becomes aware of their crime. Paralyzed by the shock, mother sits speechless but blazing-eyed in a wheelchair, biding her time. It comes at last, and with it a spurt of good theater...
...sudden spurt of activity, Chinese troops last week captured Weichow Island, off the South China coast, pierced French Indo-China on a 100-mile front and pushed to within 150 miles of Shanghai. But their biggest success was the recapture of the key city of Liuchow, onetime Fourteenth Air Force base. From that war front, TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White radioed...