Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
Last spring, he wrote Death of a Salesman in a six-week spurt; it had been stewing in his head for ten years. The script inspired such enthusiasm in its producers and Director Kazan that most of its 80 investors put up the backing without reading it. Some disliked the title and demanded a new one with box office lure, but Miller held...
...from the Government's Shasta Dam. It hoped to boost transmission enough so that last year's power shortage would not occur again. In addition, the Government hoped to step up California's Central Valley Project's capacity enough to take care of another big spurt in demand...