Word: spurts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart of France gave one more convulsive spurt at this treatment. Said the new Foreign Minister Paul Baudoin, a Reynaud protege and World War I ace: "We are never ready to accept shameful conditions. . . . The French whole people will know what...
...years, starting as a chemist, moving from the presidency to the chairmanship in 1919. He was ready to retire to his enormous hothouses at Longwood Gardens, where he plucks orchids and figs, to sit in the evening on his broad plaza and watch his $500,000 fountain swish and spurt in beams of many-colored light...
Meanwhile the Canadian Communist Party was declared outlawed amid a rush of Dominion feeling against Red quislings. ∧ Nazi invasion of The Netherlands and Belgium caused a great spurt in New Zealand recruiting. Prime Minister Peter Fraser, who during World War I was a conscientious objector jailed for "seditious utterances," is now all out for Allied victory, cabled to Prime Minister Churchill a pledge of "the fullest cooperation of New Zealand's Government and people, Europeans and Maoris alike." Recruiting spurted strongly on news of the latest Nazi Blitzkrieg...
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With six minutes to go the scoreboard read 31 to 25 for the Red and Blue, but in the next four minutes the Crimson put on a spurt, and with two minutes left Joe Romano sank a shot that tied the game at 35 all. At that point Ross Hahu, Sophomore forward, was given two free shots, and although he made only one, it was enough. No more Harvard shots came even close to the basket...