Word: spurts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing he was sure of: "the permanent existence of ... a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society. ... We move on a thin crust which may at any moment be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering below. From time to time a hollow murmur underground or a sudden spurt of flame into the air tells of what is going on beneath our feet...
Shrewdest interpretation of the Russian announcements, as well as of recent Russian gestures in the Balkans, was given by longtime Moscow Correspondent Walter Duranty, now in Tokyo for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Wrote he: "What is really coming is a new spurt of diplomatic activity and negotiation between the two countries, for which the Soviet Union and Germany are now engaged in preliminary jockeying. The question involved is ... of closer cooperation and the price to be paid therefor...
...composed mainly of members of last year's successful Freshman boat, fell back badly at the start, but then successively overhauled the fourth and second shells. About a hundred yards from the finish they seemed about to repeat their upset victory of a week ago, but a last-minute spurt by Wilson's Jayvees sent them over the finish, victors by a very scant margin...
Last week the biggest thing mankind has ever made began to spurt power . As Grand Coulee's first bolt of electricity sped to Bonneville's Government-owned transmission lines, it signaled the start of another round in an old, old fight : public v. private power...
...year old boy whose teeming brain and sturdy hand carries the grown-ups through crisis after crisis. Despite a rather obvious lack of inspiration displayed by the author in mediocre lines and a transparent plot, "Your Loving Son" succeeds in maintaining an ambling pleasant pace with just enough spurt here and there to keep a blase Back-Bayer awake...