Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peanuts to what the roads will be handling late this summer, when the heat will really be on. By August the transports shuttling across the Atlantic will be landing 350,000 men a month into sleepers and coaches for a fast trip to regrouping centers. Local traffic will spurt as the groups are furloughed home, then return to camp for regrouping...
...Giants banged their way into the National League lead, was feeling no pain. Every time he hit a home run, drove in a run (three so far), drew a walk (eleven in seven games), or did most anything, he broke his own league record. The Yankees' five-game spurt which made them the team to beat in the American League-despite the Chicago White Sox's five straight wins-did not even raise a smile on Joe McCarthy's square jaw. Said poker-faced Joe: "My team's better than last year...
...tried hard to shake off lean-jawed Specialist 2/C Wally Ris, onetime mechanical engineering student at the University of Illinois. He got no farther than a half-stroke ahead in three laps. Then they both flubbed the all-important last turn, squared away even for the final spurt. Whispered 21-year-old Wally to himself: "Beat him . . . beat him." He did-by a touch, and in New York A.C. pool-record time (51.3 seconds...
Victory was snatched from the grasp of Stahl's hapless quintet Wednesday evening when a Cushing General Hospital five, putting on a spurt in the last quarter, nullified the Crimson athletes' six point third-quarter advantage...
Last fall he talked the Canadiens into promising him a bonus if the club led the National Hockey League at Christmas, another bonus if he was the league's leading scorer at that time. Then he put the deal on ice. With an occasional timely spurt of the old speed, and an aggressive instinct for team play, he fed a stream of passes to linemates Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard, by Christmas had piled up 19 assists and 15 goals. That gave him a one-point, bonus-earning edge over veteran Bill Cowley, the slick stick handler and playmaking...