Word: spurts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Desert of Death in the sunblasted south to the 18,000-ft.-high Wakhan Valley in the far northeast, the first blossoms of modernity have finally begun to sprout in the rugged kingdom of Afghanistan. So have the weeds. After 2,500 years of inertia, a startling 13-year spurt of modernization has made itself felt across much of the Texas-sized nation. The beginnings of progress have also brought new problems, political and economic. As a result, Afghanistan's course seems far less clear today than it did a few years...
...deception was carried out by Pygmalion's authors, Harvard Social Psychologist Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, former principal of South San Francisco's Spruce School. They told the teachers that a new test could predict which slow-learning students were likely to "show an unusual forward spurt of academic and intellectual functioning." The exam, actually a routine but unfamiliar intelligence test, was given to all pupils. Teachers were then told which students had displayed a high potential for improvement. The names were actually drawn...
Though he turned 60 last week, Nelson Rockefeller showed all the ebullience of a conventioneering Jaycee as he bounced from coast to coast in a spurt of razzle-dazzle campaigning. He rode a motorized ricksha and a cable car in San Francisco, a trolley in St. Louis, a stern-wheeler on the Ohio near Louisville, and a pea-green convertible in Wall Street. He still was not riding any bandwagon, but in Miami, at least, he got a surprise present: an endorsement from Florida Governor Claude Kirk-the first Southern Governor to support him to date. Then, Pennsylvania...
Halfway through the car model-year, automakers were elated to learn last week that sales during the normally dull quarter from January to March were surprisingly high. A spurt of car buying during the last ten days of March had already started Detroiters smiling, but it was not until overall figures were published that their most optimistic extrapolations could be verified. More than 2,000,000 cars were sold in the quarter-up 18% over the same months of 1967. The volume for the first quarter of 1968 was surpassed only in the record years...
...years when he was trying to maintain his "big tent" consensus. Congress, for example, can expect a gale of presidential messages, and while the men on Capitol Hill are not notably generous to Presidents whose terms are drawing to a close, they may be spurred to act by a spurt in Johnson's popularity...